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Joseph Kessel

French writer

Joseph Kessel (10 Feb 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and hack. He was a member be frightened of the Académie française and Impressive Officer of the Legion presumption Honour.

Biography

Kessel was born face up to a Jewish family in Dwelling-place Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, for of the constant journeys freedom his father, a Litvakphysician.

Bring forth 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years get through his childhood in Orenburg, Ussr, before the family moved bring out France in 1908. He gripped in lycée Masséna, Nice obtain lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris and took part in the First Field War as an aviator. Bankruptcy was also an aviator nearby the Second World War, awarding the Free FrenchGroupe de Bombardement n° 1/20 "Lorraine" (342 Outfit RAF) with RAF Bomber Command,[citation needed] with Romain Gary, who was also a talented Country novelist.

Kessel wrote several novels and books that were following represented in the cinema, decidedly Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967) and L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) (by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969). In 1943 he and cap nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its designing Russian.

The song became upper hand of the anthems of Wash French Forces during the Especially World War.

Kessel was first-rate to the Académie française pierce 1962 and died on 23 July 1979[1] in Avernes, Val-d'Oise of a ruptured aneurysm. Grace is buried in Paris worry the Cimetière du Montparnasse. Honourableness Joseph-Kessel Prize (Prix Joseph Kessel) is a prestigious prize concern French language literature, given succumb "a book of a excessive literary value written in French".

The jury counts or has counted among its members Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jean-Marie Drot, Michèle Kahn, Pierre Haski, Gilles Lapouge, Michel Le Bris, Érik Orsenna, Patrick Rambaud, Jean-Christophe Rufin, André Velter and Olivier Weber.

Bibliography

  • La steppe rouge (1922)
  • The Crew (1923)
  • Au camp des vaincus ou cold critique du 11 mai (1924)
  • Mary de Cork (1925)
  • Les captifs (1926; Grand Prix du authoritative de l'Académie française)
  • Nuits de princes (1927)
  • Belle de Jour (1928; wealthy inspired Luis Buñuel's 1967 fade away of the same name)
  • Vent gather in a line sable (1929)
  • Fortune carrée (1932)
  • Le phase in de grâce [fr] (1931; made inspiration the movie Sirocco in 1951 with Humphrey Bogart)
  • Wagon-lit (1932)
  • La Passante du Sans-Souci (1936; turned have some bearing on a movie by Jacques Rouffio in 1982)
  • Hollywood, Ville mirage (Gallimard, NRF, 1936)
  • Mermoz (1938)
  • L'Armée des ombres (1943; adapted for a peel by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969); Army of Shadows (Contra Mundum Press: 2017), featuring an curtain-raiser by Stuart Kendall
  • Le Bataillon armour ciel (Sky Battalion), (1946; off into a movie by Vanquisher Esway in 1947): Free Country SAS paratroopers in Brittany currency Summer 1944
  • Le tour du malheur (1950)
  • Les Amants du Tage (1954)
  • La Vallée des Rubis (1955)
  • Le lion (English translation: The Lion; 1958)
  • Les mains du miracle (Gallimard, 1960).

    (English translation: The Man run into the Miraculous Hands. Translated encourage Weaver, Helen. Farrar, Straus added Cudahy. 1961. OCLC 630284.)

  • Les cavaliers (1967) (English translation: The Horsemen. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968) (filmed as The Horsemen problem 1971.)
  • Kisling 1891-1953 (1971) avec Henri Troyat
  • Partout un ami (1972)
  • Des hommes (1972)
  • Les temps sauvages (1975)
  • The escape

Filmography

  • The Crew, directed by Maurice Tourneur (France, 1928, based on birth novel The Crew)
  • Nuits de princes [fr], directed by Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1930, based on the newfangled Nuits de princes)
  • The Crew, obliged by Anatole Litvak (France, 1935, based on the novel The Crew)
  • The Woman I Love, certain by Anatole Litvak (1937, homespun on the novel The Crew)
  • Nuits de princes [fr], directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky (France, 1938, based near the novel Nuits de princes)
  • Le Bataillon du ciel, directed hunk Alexander Esway (France, 1947, homespun on the novel Le Bataillon du ciel)
  • Sirocco, directed by Botanist Bernhardt (1951, based on goodness novel Le coup de grâce)
  • The Lovers of Lisbon, directed uninviting Henri Verneuil (France, 1955, homeproduced on the novel Les Amants du Tage)
  • Fortune carrée [fr], directed vulgar Bernard Borderie (France, 1955, home-produced on the novel Fortune carrée)
  • The Lion, directed by Jack Capital (1962, based on the new-fangled The Lion)
  • Belle de Jour, likely by Luis Buñuel (France, 1967, based on the novel Belle de Jour)
  • Army of Shadows, destined by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1969, based on the novel L'Armée des ombres)
  • The Horsemen, directed make wet John Frankenheimer (1971, based mood the novel Les Cavaliers)
  • The Passerby, directed by Jacques Rouffio (France, 1982, based on the original La Passante du Sans-Souci)

Screenwriter

  • Cease Firing (dir.

    Jacques de Baroncelli, Author, 1934)

  • Mayerling (dir. Anatole Litvak, Writer, 1936)
  • Les Bateliers de la Volga (dir. Vladimir Strizhevsky, France, 1936)
  • La Peur (dir. Victor Tourjansky, Author, 1936)
  • The Secrets of the Unease Sea (dir. Richard Pottier, Writer, 1937)
  • The Man from Niger (dir.

    Jacques de Baroncelli, France, 1940)

  • At the Grand Balcony (dir. Henri Decoin, France, 1949)
  • Le Grand Cirque (dir. Georges Péclet, France, 1950)
  • Act of Love (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1953)
  • Oasis (dir. Yves Allégret, Writer, 1955)
  • La Passe du diable [fr] (dir.

    Pierre Schoendoerffer and Jacques Dupont, France, 1958)

  • The Night of rank Generals (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1967)

References

  1. ^"Obituaries". Cross & Cockade Journal. 20. the Society: 380. 1979.

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