Roger Ikor
Roger Ikor (28 May 1912 – 17 November 1986) was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1955. He was born in Paris.
Life
Roger was of a
Lycee Condorcet and the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In June 1940, he was taken prisoner of war, and was sent to Pomerania
.
Les eaux mêlées (1955), which won the
Goncourt Prize the same year, and which forms with The Spring Graft, a diptych
titled Sons of Avrom, tells the story of a Jewish family that settled in France, and was bound by blood with a non-Jewish French family. Spanning three generations, the story describes the relationship the family developed with their new homeland.
One of Ikor's sons had joined a Zen sect, against his father's wishes, and committed suicide. In response, Ikor founded, in 1981, the Centre contre les manipulations mentales (also known as the Centre Roger-Ikor), whose aim was to protect individuals from religious sects.[2][3]
References
- ^ Dictionnaire de la littérature française contemporaine, André Bourin et Jean Rousselot, Librairie Larousse, Paris, 1966 p.135.
- ISBN 9780306478871.
- ISBN 9782853853163.