Pierre Christin was born on 27 July 1938 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. He was a writer, known for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein (1989) and Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989). He died on 3 October 2024 in Paris, France.