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Mar 5, 2024 · 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...
Dec 13, 2017 · New Directions. $27.95. In one of Romain Gary’s last acts, before placing a Smith & Wesson revolver in his mouth and pulling the trigger, he authorized the posthumous publication of a...
Romain Gary , born Roman Kacew , 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. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.
Romain Gary has 148 books on Goodreads with 179852 ratings. Romain Gary’s most popular book is La vie devant soi.
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 ...
Dec 3, 1980 · By J.Y Smith. December 2, 1980 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Romain Gary, 66, a romantic and tragic figure who overcame the obscure origins of his birth in Eastern Europe and an impoverished boyhood in...
