André Héléna
André Héléna (8 April 1919 - 18 November 1972) was a French writer who spent most of his life in Leucate (southern France) on the mediterranean coast. He was born in Narbonne and died at Leucate, aged 53. Bibliography
Les flics ont toujours raison (Cops Can't be Wrong)
Le Bon Dieu s’en fout (God doesn't Give a Damn)
Le Goût du sang  (The Taste of Blood)
Le Baiser à la veuve (A Kiss for the Widow)
Les Salauds ont la vie dure (Bastards are Hard to Kill)
Les Clients du Central Hôtel (The Guests of the Central Hotel)
Par mesure de silence (To Ensure Silence). Some of Héléna's novels were translated into English and German. In France, Héléna's work  had more or less fallen into oblivion outside of Leucate, until a comic strip by Jacques Hiron and Jean - Michel Arroyo recently brought it back to light. International reception 
Héléna's writings were translated into English and German. In German he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the 20th century roman noir. Notes

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222154/http://www.polars.org/article67.html

1919 births
1972 deaths
People from Narbonne
French crime fiction writers
Writers from Occitania (administrative region)
20th-century French novelists
French male novelists
20th-century French male writers