Igor Bogdanoff died Monday, January 3, 2022, at the age of 72, his agent announced. A death that occurs just six days after that of his twin brother Grichka. Both had been infected with Covid-19 and hospitalized in an emergency. They had made the choice not to be vaccinated, thus risking their health … Still very active, they had various projects.
As the newspaper relates The Parisian, the Bogdanoff brothers planchaait in particular on the writing of a new book and not just any: the continuation of their best seller entitled God and science. A book published in 1991 in collaboration with Jean Guitton; however, they had been accused of plagiarism by the American astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan. They therefore got down to writing Volume II and this time wanted to work with Pope Francis! “They wanted to write the sequel to their biggest hit, thirty years later. By recounting the place of God in science and the place of science in religion. For that, they even planned to involve Pope Francis, whom they were to meet in the coming months.“, confided their agent, Damien Nougarede.
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff – who signed their books under the name Bogdanov – took the writing of this sequel very seriously. “Their manuscript was well advanced. They had been working on it for years (…) I myself delivered a letter and the first book God and science in Italian to the Pope in Rome, in 2018. Then there were letters exchanged with the apostolic nunciature. The meeting with the Pope in 2022 was only announced to me by the twins: they were to go there with Bolloré [le milliardaire décrié Vincent Bolloré, NDLR]”, added their agent.
Authors of twenty science fiction, popular science or philosophy books, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff constantly worked on writing subjects on which they were passionate and regardless of whether their work was questioned for a long time. date by the scientific community. The two brothers, who had worked on a doctorate in primordial cosmology, also wanted to revive their show. Time X. Unfortunately, the duo will have been a victim of the pandemic and its consequences.