Éric Ollivier
Éric Ollivier | |
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Born | Yves Duparc 21 November 1926 |
Died | 30 January 2015 | (aged 88)
Occupation(s) | Writer journalist screenwriter |
Éric Ollivier, pseudonym for Yves Duparc, (21 November 1926 – 30 January 2015) was a French writer, screenwriter and journalist, laureate of several French literary awards.
Biography
Youth
Éric Ollivier's mother (Theresa Marie Ourvouai) was of Irish descent, his father (Arthur Victor Marie Duparc) was a sailor and poet. Orphaned at the age of eight,[1] he was sent from Brittany to Paris at the end of 1940 by his family. He then studied at Lycée Henri-IV and practiced scouting. Having failed his baccalauréat exams, he enrolled at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales where he contributed to a dictionary of Amharic. Jean Cocteau, to whom he wrote, gave him a small role in the film Ruy Blas (1948), of which Jean Marais was the star.[2]
Secretary to François Mauriac
Eric Ollivier became the secretary of writer François Mauriac from October 1946 to Spring of 1948,[3] when he was called up to carry out his military service. He became a journalist for the daily newspaper Le Figaro in 1949, and was sent to report from Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. He was also a war correspondent in Indochina, a senior reporter in India and Africa. He directly experienced, on the spot, the independence of Morocco and Tunisia.
As a novelist, he was awarded the
The
Éric Ollivier died on 30 January 2015 at Rueil-Malmaison of intestinal cancer.[4]
Work
- 1958: L'Officier de soleil, Éditions Denoël
- 1960: Les Enracinés, Sagittaire
- 1963: La Cohorte, Plon
- 1959: Les Godelureaux, adapted to the cinema (Les Godelureaux) in 1961 by Claude Chabrol, with Jean-Claude Brialy
- 1965: Le Jeune Homme à l'impériale, La Table ronde
- 1967: J'ai cru trop longtemps aux vacances, Denoël, (Prix Roger Nimier)
- 1970: Les Malheurs d'Annie
- 1971: Passe-L'Eau, Denoël
- 1974: Une femme raisonnable, Denoël
- 1976: Panne sèche, Denoël, (Prix Cazes-Brasserie Lipp)
- 1980: Le temps me dure un peu, Denoël
- 1982: L'Orphelin de mer... ou les Mémoires de Monsieur Non, Denoël, (Prix Interallié)
- 1985: L'Arrière-saison
- 1987: Humeurs chroniques
- 1987: Le Faux Pas
- 1987: Les Livres dans la peau
- 1989: Venise, à tous les temps
- 1991: La Loi d'exil, Grasset
- 1984: L'Escalier des heures glissantes, Gallimard
- 1993: Lettre à mon genou
- 1994: Sur les chemins de France, et puis un peu d'ailleurs, Denoël
- 1996: La nature est ma seconde nature, Grasset / Fasquelle
- 1999: À fleur des cœurs, Grasset
- 2000: Ma langue aux chats, Les Belles Lettres, written in collaboration with Bruno Maso
- 2002: De longues vacances, Grasset
- 2005: Un air de fin des temps, Flammarion
- 2013: Avant de partir, Grasset
Filmography
- Cinema; screenwriter or dialoguiste
- 1961: Les Godelureaux, film by Claude Chabrol, with Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy and Jean Tissier
- 1963: Dragées au poivre, film by Jacques Baratier, with Guy Bedos, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francis Blanche and Sophie Daumier
- 1965: L'Or du duc, film by Jacques Baratier, with Claude Rich, Monique Tarbès and Jacques Dufilho
- 1971: Églantine, film by Jean-Claude Brialy, with Valentine Tessier, Claude Dauphin and Odile Versois
- Television
- 1966: Un beau dimanche, Television film by François Villiers, with Jean-Pierre Aumont
References
- ^ Avant de partir, Éditions Grasset, p. 13
- ^ Avant de partir, Grasset, p.121.
- ^ Jean-Luc Barré, François Mauriac, Biographie intime (1940–1970), Fayard, 2010
- ^ Jérôme Béglé (30 January 2015). "L'écrivain Éric Ollivier est mort". Le Point.
External links
- L’écrivain et journaliste Eric Ollivier s’est éteint on Le Monde
- La mort de l'écrivain et journaliste Éric Ollivier on Le Figaro
- Éric Ollivier a pris la clé du large on Valeurs Actuelles
- Éric Ollivier on the site of the Académie française
- Éric Ollivier at IMDb