Paul-Loup Sulitzer

P.L. Sulitzer (October 2008)

Paul Loup Karl Sulitzer (born 22 July 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French financier and author. Before he turned seventeen, he was already a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer used his financial experience and knowledge in his books which often related to the business world.

Biography

Sulitzer's father was a Jewish immigrant from Romania who died when Sulitzer was 10. Six years later Sulitzer joined a trading company that operated in the Middle East. According to his editor, he became the youngest CEO in France at the age of 21 and made his fortune selling gadgets (notably keychains that were very popular between the years 1960 and 1970 [1]) in the UK that had been made in the Far East. In 1968 he incorporated a holding company and then established a financial consultant firm.

In 1980 Sulitzer proposed to Danoël the production of a "western finance" which would be a novel of finance-fiction adventures.[2] Loup Durand, a journalist and writer, accepted the offer to write the book, choosing to inject clever arguments into the book’s advertisements. Paul-Loup thus benefitted from the most advanced marketing techniques [3] and his book Money reached a large audience. This would be followed Cash! (1981) and Fortune (1982) which depict the exploits and financial dreams of Franz Cimballi, a vigilante businessman.

After these thrillers of a new genre, the duo published Le Roi Vert (1983) through the publishing house Bernard Fixot. It was a romantic saga that achieved considerable public success and was translated into 30 other languages.

At the end of the 1980s, he was a lecturer, with François Spoerry, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and other important people, to an international meeting in Geneva of Amiic (World Real Estate Investment Organization, vanished in 1997.

Bibliography

Novels

Comics

During the early ninetys, three of his novels were adapted into comics. The adaptions, broken down in a total of 12 volumes, were written by Jean Annestay, drawn by different artists and published between 1991 and 1995 by French comics publisher Dupuis.

The Green King was adapted into a comic series from 1991 to 1995. The artist on the first issue, Jacques Armand, died April 17, 1991 before it was completed. His friends, Alexandre Coutelis, Christian Rossi and Gilles Mezzomo helped complete the album.

"Rourke" was adapted into a comic series from 1991 to 1994.

"Hannah" was adapted in three volumes from 1991 to 1993, drawn by Franz Drappier.

Honors and awards

Legal affairs

In October 2008 the Angolagate trial commenced in Paris, in which Sultzer was indicted. By the decision of the Correctional Tribunal he was condemned for "misuse of corporate assets" and given 15 months in prison with a fine of 100,000 euros.[4] This conviction led to his exclusion from the National Order of Merit in November 2012. In 2009 he published Angolagate, the chronicle of a state scandal, which had been written day by day during the process, from October 2008 to March 2009.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.premiere.fr/Star/Paul-Loup-SULITZER-108723
  2. ↑ http://www.premiere.fr/Star/Paul-Loup-SULITZER-108723
  3. ↑ Philippe Scali, editor with Denoël: « "[PLS et Loup Durand] se sont partagé à 50-50 un à-valoir exorbitant dont Sulitzer a finalement demandé qu'il soit réinjecté aux quatre cinquièmes dans la publicité du livre, y compris sur les radios". Le marketing littéraire est né ». Interviewed in the article : Robert Belleret, « Les recettes du système Sulitzer », Le Monde, 5 July 2001, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Sulitzer condamné à 15 mois de prison avec sursis dans l'Angolagate
  5. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38852689?q=+&versionId=51606810

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