biography
pronunciation:
[aymay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–67)
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| biography:
| Novelist, essayist, and playwright, born in Joigny, C France. Belatedly recognized as a master of light irony and storytelling, his first novels, Brûlebois (1926) and La Table-aux-crevés (1929, Prix Renaudot), are comedies on rural life. He gained popular success with the best-selling La Jument verte (1933) and Le Passe-muraille (1943). The short story Le Nain begins with a sentence which describes his world between realism and fantasy, ‘Dans sa trente-cinquieme annee, le nain du cirque Barnaboum, se mit a grandir...’. For children he wrote Les Contes du chat perché (3 vols, 1934, 1950, 1958). He made a late debut in the theatre with Lucienne et le boucher (1947) on lust, La Tête des autres (1952) on justice, and Clérambard (1950) about a Francis of Assisi who has lost his way. His novel, Uranus, was brought to the screen by Claude Berri in 1990, starring Gérard Dépardieu. |
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