Facts: - language: french - caption: pierre glot dubois -lrb- 2006 -rrb- photo taken by claudine - notableworks: '' la grande encyclopedie des fees '' - genre: fairy tale , fantastique - awards: '' '' prix imaginales special '' '' prix oriande special - birth date: 19 july 1945 - name: pierre dubois - image: pierre dubois ecrivant.jpg - birth place: charleville-mezieres , france - occupation: script , storyteller , lecturer writer for '' bande dessinee '' , writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of pierre dubois -lrb- author -rrb- .
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pierre dubois -lrb- born 19 july 1945 -rrb- , is an internationally recognized french specialist in everything related to enchantment .he is an author , franco-belgian comics -lrb- '' bande dessinee '' -rrb- scriptwriter , storyteller and lecturer at the origin of renewed interest in fairies and little people in france .fascinated quite young by fairy tales and fairytale fantasy , he became an illustrator after only a short study of fine arts .he has brought together local legends and recreated them in radio and television shows for over thirty years .he is the inventor of elficology -lrb- '' elficologie '' -rrb- as a name for the study of the '' little people '' -lrb- fairies and other similar beings -rrb- , although it was originally just a joke on his part .his first comic book was published in 1986 and knew only a success of esteem .since then he has produced one each year and also made regular appearances on television and at conferences , always in the area of fairy tales , dreams and legends related to the fairies , who have become his specialty .it is largely thanks to his encyclopedias of fairies , imps , and elves , results of twenty years of research and published in the 1990s , that pierre dubois won his international recognition as a french specialist in everything involving magic these encyclopedias sold thousands of copies at a time when they were the very first works of their kind in france .since then the works of pierre dubois , whether art books , encyclopedias , collections of short stories or collections of stories for adults or children have experienced a certain success , marked by scholarship and humor everywhere .pierre dubois has himself become a source of inspiration for other writers and designers who have taken up the idea of elficology .