Re-adaptation of the novel by Emile Ajar (Romain Gary). The story of the Arab orphan boy Momo and the aged prostitute Madame Rosa, who survived Auschwitz.
Emile Ajar is the pen name of Romain Gary who was born as Roman Kacew in 1914 in Vilnius. He was a French novelist, diplomat, film director and World War II aviator. He is considered a major writer of ...
Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education: ‘Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow’
How many writers were killed when Romain Gary shot himself on ? One, said the French press, and he was something of a literary has-been. But months later, the news changed. It seemed ...
The Romain Gary French Cultural Center on Kikar Safra in West Jerusalem is named in honor of the French Jewish author, born Roman Kacew in Vilnius in 1914. His multi-faceted literary exploits have ...
The Guardian: Romain Gary: A Tall Story by David Bellos – review
In 1975, Emile Ajar's second novel, La Vie devant soi, was a French literary sensation. The fictionalised memoir of an Arab boy growing up in a Parisian suburb, packed with extraordinary slang, ...
Romain Gary was only 31, but he had already run through several lives, and, in a literary career built on spectacularly creative lies, would go on to make false selves something of a signature. Born ...