![]() ![]() His most famous science fiction novel, Monkey Planet (its film adaptation was renamed The Planet of the Apes) has been adapted eight different times for either television or film. Upon his departure from Asia, Boulle's literature made a turn towards the fantastic and science fiction while contemplating the political and cultural upheaval experienced by the modern man. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. ![]() It was this experience that would later form the basis of his infamous novel, The Bridge on the River Kwai. Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. Boulle fought in Yunnan, Calcutta and Indo-Chine during the Second World War until he was captured by the Japanese and imprisoned in a POW camp. Boulle studied as an engineer but ended up moving to Malaysia where he worked as both a soldier and a planter. Biography: Pierre Boulle was born in 1912 at Avignon. ![]()
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