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Roger Nimier (31 October 1925 – 28 September 1962) was a French novelist. Life. Nimier was born in Paris, and served in the French Army, specifically in the 2nd Hussard Regiment in the Second World War (until 1945). [1] . He began to write quite early in his life. His first novel, Les Épées ( The Swords) was published in 1948, when he was only 23.
Roger Nimier, né le 31 octobre 1925 à Paris et mort le 28 septembre 1962 1 à Garches 2, est un écrivain français . Également journaliste et scénariste, il est considéré comme le chef de file du mouvement littéraire dit des « Hussards ».
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The Blue Hussar (French: Le hussard bleu) is a 1950 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. Set in Germany in 1945–1946, it tells the story of ten French hussars who operate in the French occupation army right after World War II. The perspective shifts between several different people.
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He was the leader of the Hussards, a literary group which included notably Antoine Blondin, Michel Déon and Jacques Laurent, opposed to existentialism. He was opposed to the figure of the "engaged writer" symbolized by Jean-Paul Sartre. His most famous work is considered to be Le Hussard bleu published in 1950.
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PARIS, Sept. 29--Roger Nimier, one of France's most prominent postwar-generation writers, was killed last night in an automobile accident just outside Paris. He was 36 years old View Full...
Overview. Roger Nimier. (1925—1961) Quick Reference. (1925–61). The central figure of the right‐wing Hussards group of French writers, Nimier was important both as a novelist and as a literary journalist. His novels, Les Épées (1948), Le ... From: Nimier, Roger in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French » Subjects: Literature.
Roger Nimier was born on 31 October 1925 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Éducation sentimentale (1962) and The Nina B. Affair (1961). He died on 28 September 1962 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France.
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