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Gary recruited Pavlowitch to portray Ajar in public appearances, allowing Gary to remain unknown as the true producer of the Ajar works, and thus enabling him to win the 1975 Goncourt Prize, a second win in violation of the prize's usual rules.
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- Diplomat, pilot, writer
- French
Jun 19, 2018 · He became a master of multiple literary personae, a decorated hero of the French resistance, and two-times winner of the Prix Goncourt (technically impossible according to the award’s rubric).
He became the only person to win a second Prix Goncourt for his 1975 novel ‘La Vie devant soi’ (The Life Beyond Us), under the penname Emile Ajar, even though an author is allowed to receive the award only once.
By means of an elaborate hoax, he became the only writer to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt twice—first in 1956 for his novel set in Africa, The Roots of Heaven, and 19 years later, as Émile Ajar, for The Life Before Us—though the rules of the prize permit an author to receive it only once.
He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel , published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975.
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- 1960
- Romain Gary, John Markham Beach
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He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel, published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975.
Dec 13, 2017 · THE KITES. By Romain Gary. Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot. 311 pp. New Directions. $27.95. In one of Romain Gary’s last acts, before placing a Smith & Wesson revolver in his mouth and ...
