Sébastien Japrisot
Jean -Baptiste Rossi ( born July 4, 1931 in Marseille, † March 4, 2003 in Vichy) was a French author, screenwriter and translator. He is better known by his pseudonym Sébastien Japrisot, an anagram of his real name.
Work
His first novel, Les partis times, he published in 1950 at age 19. The novel was not observed in France, but well received in the U.S.. 1976 Japrisot filmed his first novel.
In 1953 he published his French translation of JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. Because Japrisot with his literary activity had no real success, he worked in a managerial position in a Paris advertising agency. Encouraged by a friend, he wrote in 1962 with the detective novel Murder on the fare included his first major success, which is filmed by Constantin Costa -Gavras.
From this time he is in great demand as a screenwriter and all his novels are filmed. These are mainly the case for Cinderella (1963 ), The Lady in the Car with sunglasses and a gun (1966) and Bloody Summer (1977 ), and its film adaptation of Jean Becker. In 1991, his novel was published, the mimosa of Hossegor, that of Jean -Pierre Jeunet under the title Mathilde 2004 - was filmed A great love with Audrey Tautou.
Most of his works are crime novels, which have a very peculiar structure. In the beginning, most are extremely enigmatic characters that are slow to produce concrete figures. In the novels and screenplays of Japrisot are often seemingly helpless women, the main characters, develop a strong force in the course of history. Often the stories begin at the end of the actual story and then told in flashback. It relates the novels a masterful voltage. His expressive, very pictorial language make him one of the most influential French ( crime ) authors. In all his books, you can feel a strong fascination for the cinema.