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Romain Gary ( pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [ O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew ( pronounced [kat͡sɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar ), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names.
Romain Gary, né Roman Kacew le 21 mai 1914 à Vilna (Empire russe) et mort le 2 décembre 1980 à Paris, est un écrivain français d'origine russe et de confession juive, de langues française et anglaise.
Jun 19, 2018 · Romain Gary was a decorated war hero – and hoaxer, inventing a writer who penned the bestselling French novel of the 20th Century. Why isn’t he better known, asks Hephzibah Anderson.
Romain Gary (born May 8, 1914, Vilnius, Lith., Russian Empire—died Dec. 2, 1980, Paris, France) was a Lithuanian-born French novelist whose first work, L’Éducation européenne (1945; Forest of Anger ), won him immediate acclaim. Humanistic and optimistic despite its graphic depictions of the horrors of World War II, the novel was later ...
Dec 25, 2017 · Romain Gary was a great big liar. The French novelist, war hero, and diplomat made up stories the way other people make up beds: daily and conscientiously and without much premeditation. He...
Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar. Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great ...
May 13, 2018 · Henceforth he was free to write books as Émile Ajar and other books as Romain Gary, creating a two-track oeuvre whose unity only becomes visible in retrospect. But the strain of the deception – which included controlling the unreliable avatar he had tasked with impersonating the non-existent Ajar – propelled Gary ever further towards a ...
