Born in 1919 in Pons, Bonnet worked as a physical education teacher and did not publish his first book until the age of 45 and his second at the age of 64. He lived in Poitiers during his writing career, where he published his most successful novel, Les yeux des chiens ont toujours soif. He published his final book at the age of 97, Juste avant la nuit.
A road in Poitiers was named after him.[1] Georges Bonnet died in 2021, at the age of 101.[2]
