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Serge Joncour

Serge Joncour

Birth : 1961-11-28, Paris, France

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Serge Joncour (born 1961) is a French novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Paris and studied philosophy at university. His debut novel UV was published in 1998. Notable books include: L'Écrivain national, which won the Prix des Deux Magots; Repose-toi sur moi winner of the Prix Interallié; Chien loup, winner of the Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs, which became the first of his novels to appear in English translation; Nature humaine, winner of Prix Femina 2020. As a screenwriter, he wrote the script for Elle s'appelait Sarah (2011) starring Kristin Scott Thomas. He was recently suspended from Twitter. Source: Article "Serge Joncour" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Serge Joncour

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Novel

It is the farm on which Thomas was born. It is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is about to do the same thing, and his father, with whom nothing has ever been possible. He finds there everything from which he had fled twelve years earlier. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his passionate mother.

Novel

An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

Screenplay

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

Novel

During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.