Paul Guimard

Paul Guimard ( born March 3, 1921 in Saint-Mars- la- Jaille, Loire -Atlantique, † 2 May 2004, Hyères, Var ) was a French writer.

Guimard began his career as a journalist. His first novel, Les faux frères, he published in 1956 and was awarded the Grand Prix de l' Humour. A year later he was awarded the Prix Interallié. His work Les choses de la vie was made ​​into a film by Claude Sautet with Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli 1969. In the seventies, he wrote columns for the magazine L'Express.

After the French Socialists had won the 1981 election, he was briefly adviser to President François Mitterrand, with whom he had been friends since the war.

Guimard, an avid fisherman and sailors who shared his passion for the sea with his wife, the French novelist Benoîte Groult (salt on our skin ). According to their statements, he succumbed to a heart condition.

Works

  • In a street of Paris
  • One evening, it had rained
  • Encounters
  • Things of Life ( Les choses de la vie)
  • Fossilization (L' Age de Pierre )

Films

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