Turenne, Raymond
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of French diplomat, banker and author Raymond Auzias-Turenne (1861-1940), in Canada from 1890; he also wrote as by Amès Sémiré. Of sf interest is Le dernier mamouth (1904 as Raymond Auzias de Turenne; trans as The Last of the Mammoths 1907), in which the eponymous survivor is hunted down in its despoiled Lost World. [JC]
Raymond Auzias-Turenne
born Grenoble, Isère, France: 23 November 1861
died Montreal, Quebec: 20 September 1940
works (selected)
- Le dernier mamouth (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1904) as Raymond Auzias de Turenne [binding unknown/]
- The Last of the Mammoths (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907) [trans of the above: hb/]
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