Romain Gary  

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Romain Gary (8 May 1914 – 2 December 1980) was a French diplomat, novelist, film director, World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice (under his own name and under a pseudonym).

Bibliography

As Romain Gary

• Education européenne (1945); translated as A European Education
• Tulipe (1946); republished and modified in 1970.
• Le grand vestiaire (1949); translated as "The Company Of Men, 1950)
• Les couleurs du jour (1952); translated as The Colors of the Day, 1953
• Les racines du ciel — 1956 Prix Goncourt; translated as The Roots of Heaven (1957); filmed as The Roots of Heaven (1958)
• Lady L (1957); self-translated and published in French in 1963; filmed as Lady L (1965)
• La Promesse de l'aube (1960); translated as Promise at Dawn (1961); filmed as Promise at Dawn (1970)
• Johnie Coeur (1961, a theatre adaptation of "L'homme a la colombe")
• Gloire à nos illustres pionniers (1962, short stories); translated as "Hissing Tales" (1964)
• The Ski Bum (1965) (self-translated into French Adieu Gary Cooper, 1969)
• Pour Sganarelle (1965, literary essay)
• Les Mangeurs d'Etoiles (1966); self-translated into french and first published as The Talent Scout (1961)
• La danse de Gengis Cohn (1967); self-translated into English as The Dance of Genghis Cohn
• La tête coupable (1968); translated as The Guilty Head(1969)
• Chien blanc (1970); translated as White Dog (1970); filmed as White Dog (1982)
• Les trésors de la Mer Rouge (1971)
• Europa (1972) translated in English in 1978.
• The Gasp (1973); self-translated into French as Charge d'ame (1978)
• Les enchanteurs (1973); translated as The Enchanters(1975)
• La nuit sera calme (1974, interview)
• Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable (1975); translated as "Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid", 1977.
• Clair de femme (1977)
• La bonne moitié (1979, theatre)
• Les clowns lyriques (1979); new version of the 1952 novel, "Les couleurs du jour" (The Colors of the Day)
• Les cerfs-volants (1980)
• Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar (1981, posthumous)
• L'homme à la colombe (1984, definitive posthumous version)
• L'affaire homme (2005, articles and interviews)
• L'orage (2005, short stories and unfinished novels)
• Un Humaniste, a short story

As Émile Ajar

• Gros câlin (1974)
• La vie devant soi — 1975 Prix Goncourt; filmed as Madame Rosa (1977); translated as "Momo" (1978); re-released as The Life Before Us (1986).
• Pseudo (1976)
• L'Angoisse du roi Salomon (1979); translated as "King Solomon" (1983).
• Gros câlin - new version including final chapter of the original and never published version.

As Fosco Sinibaldi

• L'homme à la colombe (1958)

As Shatan Bogat

• Les têtes de Stéphanie (1974)

Filmography

As director

• Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou (Birds in Peru) (1968) starring Jean Seberg
• Kill! (1971) also starring Jean Seberg

As screenwriter

• The Roots of Heaven (1958)
• The Longest Day (1962)

Further reading

• Ajar, Émile (Romain Gary), Hocus Bogus, Yale University Press, 2010, 224p, ISBN 978-0300149760 (translation of Pseudo by David Bellos, includes The Life and Death of Émile Ajar)
• Anissimov, Myriam, Romain Gary, le caméléon (Denoël 2004)
• Bellos, David, Romain Gary: A Tall Story, Harvill Secker, 2010, 528p, ISBN 978-1843431701
• Gary, Romain, Promise at Dawn (Revived Modern Classic), W.W. Norton, 1988, 348p, ISBN 978-0811210164
• Huston, Nancy, Tombeau de Romain Gary (Babel, 1997)
• Cahier de l'Herne, Romain Gary (L'Herne, 2005)
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• Marret, Carine, Romain Gary - Promenade à Nice (Baie des Anges, 2010)