André Pieyre de Mandiargues

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André Pieyre de Mandiargues (March 14, 1909 - December 13, 1991) was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Psis.

His book La Marge was made into a film by Walerian Borowczyk. The 1967 novel La Marge won the Prix Goncourt. It is his collection of pornographic items that is featured in Borowczyk's Une collection particuliere. He also wrote an introduction to Pauline Reage's Story of O.