Paul-Loup Sulitzer, French Author of 'Money' and 'Cash', Dies at 78

The businessman and writer died in Mauritius. He was 78 years old....

In 1987, on his program “Apostrophes”, the presenter and literary critic strongly disputed the origin of La Femme Pressée, a successful novel by the writer who died on Thursday, February 6.

The businessman and author of French best-sellers, published in more than 40 million copies around the world, died on Thursday, February 6, 2025, his daughter announced.

A successful author, we owe him the invention of a literary genre: the “financial western”. Also a businessman, he was 78.

The 78-year-old writer died in Mauritius, where he lived, “as a result of a stroke”.

A high-volume writer, businessman, he was the symbol of the golden capitalism of the 1980s, before seeing his world collapse in the 2000s. He died Thursday in hospital in Mauritius, where he had been living for several months, his daughter announced.