Sébastien Japrisot Writer

Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 – 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".Famous in the Francophony, he is little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.

Personal facts

Sébastien Japrisot
Pseudonym
Robert Huart
Sébastien Japrisot
Birth dateJuly 04, 1931
Birth nameJean-Baptiste Rossi
Birth place
Marseille
Nationality
France
Date of deathMarch 04, 2003

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Writer

Career start1950
Career end2003
genre
Thriller (genre)
Literary fiction
influenced
Jean-Christophe Grangé
Thierry Jonquet
influenced by

Sébastien Japrisot on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.allmovie.com
  2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418469