Claude Voilier was a French teacher, journalist, translator (especially of popular English children's series such as The Three Investigators and The Dana Girls into French), and a prolific author, having written over 600 short stories for various French magazines, and about 400 stories for children. In the English-speaking world, she is best known for her continuation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five series of children's adventure novels.
Claude Voilier was born Andrée Labedan around 1930. She wrote two popular novels for children, "Le manoir des cinq preux" and "Celle qu'on retrouva". She was living in Arcachon (Gironde), France, at the time of her death in May 2009.
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