Romain Gary

Romain Gary

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1914-05-21
Deathday: 1980-12-02 (66 years old)

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Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), 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. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg.


Gary was born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: רומן קצב‎ Roman Katsev, Russian: Рома́н Ле́йбович Ка́цев, Roman Leibovich Katsev) in Vilnius (at that time in the Russian Empire). In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his parents' origins, ancestry, occupation and his own childhood. His mother, Mina Owczyńska (1879—1941), was a Jewish actress from Švenčionys (Svintsyán) and his father was a businessman named Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942) from Trakai (Trok), also a Lithuanian Jew. The couple broke in 1925 and Arieh-Leib remarried. Gary later claimed that his actual father was the celebrated actor and film star Ivan Mosjoukine, with whom his actress mother had worked and to whom he bore a striking resemblance. Mosjoukine appears in his memoir Promise at Dawn. Deported to central Russia in 1915, they stayed in Moscow until 1920. They later returned to Vilnius, then moved on to Warsaw. When Gary was fourteen, he and his mother emigrated illegally to Nice, France. Converted to Catholicism by his mother, Gary studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. ...


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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1914-05-21

Deathday
1980-12-02 (66 years old)

Birth Name
Roman Kacew

Birth Place
Vilnius, Lithuania

Relationships
Jean Seberg (1962-10-16 - 1970-01-01), Leïla Chellabi (1978-01-01 - 1980-12-02), Lesley Blanch (1944-01-01 - 1961-01-01)

Children
Alexandre Diego Gary

Father
Arieh-Leïb Kacew

Mother
Mina Owczyńska

Siblings
Joseph Bregsztein, Walentyna Kacew

Citizenships
Russian Empire, France, Lithuania, Poland

Residences
rue du Bac · Nice, France

Also Known As
Roman Kacew, Émile Ajar

Awards
Prix Goncourt


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