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Romain Gary (pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (pronounced, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator.
Romain Gary was born as Roman Kacew on May 21st, 1914, in Russian Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania), into a Jewish family, to businessman Arieh-Leib Kacew and Litvak actress Mina Owczynska. He got fluent in Russian, Yiddish, Polish, and German as a child.
Romain Gary (born May 8, 1914, Vilnius, Lith., Russian Empire—died Dec. 2, 1980, Paris, France) was a Lithuanian-born French novelist whose first work, L’Éducation européenne (1945; Forest of Anger), won him immediate acclaim.
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Dec 25, 2017 · Kacew lived with and helped raise Romain until 1925; but Gary wanted to advertise his mother’s myth that his real father was a famous Russian actor, Ivan Mosjoukine, who supposedly had an affair...
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- December 2, 1980
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- La vie devant soi by Romain Gary, Émile Ajar (alias)
- La promesse de l'aube.
- خداحافظ گاری کوپر by Romain Gary, سروش حبیبی (Translator)
- The Kites by Romain Gary, Miranda Richmond Mouillot (Goodreads Author) (Translator)
Jun 19, 2018 · Romain Gary was a decorated war hero – and hoaxer, inventing a writer who penned the bestselling French novel of the 20th Century. Why isn’t he better known, asks Hephzibah Anderson.
Jun 4, 2021 · Romain Gary is a famous French author born in Vilnius in 1914 under the name Roman Kacew. French pupils study his works at high school. In Lithuania, he has been gaining popularity for the last 10 years, mainly through the construction of a monument and archival discoveries.
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