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Jean Lartéguy
Also credited as Jean Larteguy, Jean Pierre Lucien Osty
Born Sep 5, 1920Died at 90Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, FranceWriting
Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort – 23 February 2011) was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions.
