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Jules Verne
AuthorBooks · Second hand1828-1905
French writer, pioneer of science fiction and author of Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
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Curiosities about Jules Verne
Birth
1828
Death
1905
First book
1863
Years writing
163
He wrote the Voyages Extraordinaires, a series of 54 novels for the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
He anticipated inventions such as the submarine, space travel, hypertext and videoconferencing in books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
He ranks among the most translated authors in the world alongside Agatha Christie and Shakespeare.
He spent much of his life in Amiens, where he served on the city council and supported the arts.
In 1886 his nephew shot him in the leg, leaving him lame for the rest of his life.