The Safety Matches

The Safety Matches
Author Robert Sabatier
Original title Les Allumettes suédoises
Translator Patsy Southgate
Country France
Language French
Publisher Albin Michel
Publication date
1969
Published in English
1972
ISBN 0-525-19595-5

The Safety Matches (French title: Les Allumettes suédoises), also translated under the title The Match Boy, is a novel by Robert Sabatier, published in 1969 by Albin Michel and translated into English by Patsy Southgate in 1972.[1][2]

It is the first volume of an autobiographical series whose main character is a boy named Olivier.

An immediate best-seller, the book was adapted for French TV by Jacques Ertaud in 1995.

References

  1. Catalogue entry of the American edition, National Library of Australia. Accessed 14 July 2013
  2. Catalogue entry of the British edition, National Library of Australia. Accessed 14 July 2013
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