Paul Guimard

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

Guimard began his career as a journalist . He published his first novel, Les faux frères , in 1956 and received the Grand Prix de l'Humour for it . A year later he received the Prix ​​Interallié . His work Les choses de la vie was filmed in 1969 by Claude Sautet with Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli . In the 1970s he wrote columns for L'Express magazine .

After the French Socialists won the elections in 1981, Paul Guimard briefly became an advisor to President François Mitterrand , with whom he had been friends since World War II .

Guimard shared his passion for fishing , sailing and the sea with his wife, the French novelist Benoîte Groult ( salt on our skin ). According to her, he died of a heart condition.

Works

  • On a street in Paris
  • One evening it had rained
  • Encounters
  • The things in life ( Les choses de la vie )
  • Petrification ( L'Age de Pierre )

Film adaptations

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  • 1958: The night and its price (Cette nuit-là) , directed by Maurice Cazeneuve
  • 1970: The things in life (Les choses de la vie)

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