Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer, and novelist as well as a film producer.

His plays have been produced in over fifty countries from around the world.

Life

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's parents were teachers of physical education and sports, and his father later became a physiotherapist and masseur in paediatric hospitals. He was also a French boxing champion, though his mother was a medalist runner. His grandfather, who was an artisan jeweler, was a jeweler.

Schmitt's "Classiques & Contemporains" book of La Nuit de Valognes (Don Juan on Trial) claims he was depicted as a rebellious youth who detested received wisdom and was often prone to violent outbursts. It was, according to Schmitt, that saved him and taught him to be himself and have the confidence that he was free. His mother brought him to the Théâtre des Célestins for a performance by Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac starring Jean Marais. Her son was compelled to tears, and the theatre's passions were sown. After the performance, he told his mother that he wanted to "be like the man on the poster"; his mother assumed he was talking to Jean Marais, but he said no. On the poster "Edmond Rostand," you can find out the name. He then began to write. "I knew (or decided) that I was a writer, and I wrote, produced, and performed in my first plays at high school," he would later write. He plunged himself with ferocious enthusiasm into writing and pastiche, particularly Molière, in order to refine his style.

Schmitt passed the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure after preparatory classes at the Lycée du Parc for France's top universities. He studied in philosophy from 1980 to 1985, finishing with the highest French teaching qualification (agrégé de philosophie). In 1987, he was awarded the degree of PhD for his thesis "Diderot and Metaphysics" at the Paris-Sorbonne University, which was published in 1997 under the title "Diderot or the Philosophy of Seduction."

He has been living in Brussels since 2002 and obtained Belgian citizenship in 2008.

Schmitt spent his military service at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy before graduating two years as a student teaching assistant at the University of Besançon. He went on to teach at the high school in Cherbourg before being appointed lecturer at the University of Chambéry, where he taught for four years.

On the night of 4 February 1989, he became estranged from his companions on an expedition to the Ahaggar Desert, and in the Sahara's vast expanses, he had nothing less than a divine revelation. In that moment, he claims that his mind was flooded with the phrase "Everything is justified." Schmitt believes it was the first time he was able to write. In his book Night of Fire (La Nuit de Feu), which was published in September 2015, he reveals it.

His plays, which spanned many countries during the 1990s, earned him brisk success in several countries. Don Juan on Trial was the first to be staged at Espace 44 in Nantes in September 1991. In 1994, his next play, The Visitor, received three awards at the Molière Award Ceremony. He had decided to devote himself entirely to writing, and he had left his teaching position at the University of Chambéry.

Enigma Variations debuted in 1996, starring Alain Delon and Francis Huster in the lead roles. Frédérick ou le crime Boulevard, his play, opened simultaneously in France and Germany, with Jean-Paul Belmondo performing in the original performance at the Théâtre Marigny in 1998. Both Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (M. Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran) were staged and published in France and Germany in 2001. The book was sold over 250,000 copies in France and 300,000 in Germany in 2004.

Schmitt has also written three one-act plays for humanitarian causes. In The Devil's School (L'École du diable), which Schmitt wrote for an Amnesty International evening, Francis Huster played the devil. One Thousand and One Nights was written for the French charity "Culture Changes Life" campaign (La culture change la vie).

He wrote several books and short stories in the early 2000s. The Gospel According to Pilate, a book about Jesus Christ written from Pilate's point of view, received critical acclaim and massive sales. The Alternative Hypothesis (La Part de l'autre) a novel about a controversial historical figure from 1908 to Vienna's Academy of Fine Art, putting him on a collision course with the whole world. As a Work of Art, he wrote a whimsical and satirical interpretation of the Faust myth. (Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art, 2002).

Readers and audiences have delighted readers and audiences in France and elsewhere, as well as in the bookshops. Milarepa is a Buddhist monograph, Mr Ibrahim, and the Flowers of the Koran (Les Dix Enfants are Christians who could not get fat) with Christianity, Noah's Child (Le Sumo ne fout pas grossir – 2009) with Buddhism, Sufism, Noah's Child (Lest encognite, No. 10 With Judaism, Mr Ibrahim, and the Lady in Pink (Me Mort –Ming Millions of readers of all ages read them.

Schmitt wrote My Life with Mozart, a work of autofiction that was published in eight different countries from South Korea to Norway, in an effort to explore new modes of expression. Actors and guitarists will also perform this collection of songs and words. Schmitt produced a collection of short stories, Odette Toulemonde and other stories, in the same vein as his first film. Odette Toulemonde has toured Europe as both a book and a film. The Dreamer of Ostend (La Rêveuse d'Ostende), a lyrical tribute to the imagination's strength, was followed in 2007, while a new collection of four stories about redemption and which received the "Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle" trophy in 2010. Two Gentlemen of Brussels, Belgium's fourth collection (Les Deux Messieurs de Bruxelles, 2012), explores the concept of invisible love, while a fifth, The Revenge of Forgiveness (La Vengeance du Pardon), explores forgiveness. These collections are unique in the sense that each volume explores a particular topic in relation to many stories, much like a novel.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, a man who undertakes a journey of millions of people in search of a safe place to go, is returning to the book in 2008. A modern picaresque saga about the human condition, the novel explores the question: are boundaries the keystone of our identities or the last bastion of our imaginations?

Schmitt, a passionate amateur musician with a passion for Mozart, has made his contribution to opera by translating two of Mozart's works into French: The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. He has also written songs and published a CD.

He writes fiction and plays now, but he is more interested in writing screenplays. Odette Toulemonde (2007), a film about happiness starring Catherine Frot and Albert Dupontel, was followed by a screen version of Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009), starring Michèle Laroque, Max von Sydow, Amira Casar, and Mylène Demongeot in the lead roles.

Schmitt is one of the world's most widely read and well-received French-language authors. His books have been translated into 45 languages and performed in more than 50 countries. His plays are regularly appearing in new productions and revivals in both national and private theatres around the world, and they are now part of the contemporary repertoire.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt revealed in January 2012 that he would take over as the Théâtre Rive Gauche's director in collaboration with producer and actor Bruno Metzger. Following a period of renovation and restoration, the Théâtre Rive Gauche opened in September 2012 and now hosts modern performances.

The Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature awarded Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Seat 33 (foreign literary member) replacing Hubert Nyssen; Seat 33 was previously occupied by Anna de Noailles, Colette, and Jean Cocteau on Saturday 9th June 2012. On May 25, 2013, a public session and reception took place.

He released Night of Fire, an account of the assassination of the former immigrant in the Ahaggar Desert in 1989 that turned the former atheist into a believer in 2015. He now claims to be a "agnostic who believes" in his actions. "Does God Exist?" says the narrator. "I don't know but I suspect so," he says. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt was unanimously elected by his peers members of the Prix Goncourt in 2016 and wrote The Man Who Could See Through Faces, a detective book about violence and the sacred that was published in L'Homme (L'Homme qui voyait à travers les visages).

In the spring of 2017, he spoke out about his childhood and adolescence in When I Grow Up, I'm Going to be a Child (Plus tard, je serai un enfant), a book of interviews written by Catherine Lalanne.

Schmitt, Alexandre Boyon, Stéphane Diagana, and Nelson Monfort were among the Rio Olympic Games' commentators in 2016.

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Awards

• 1994
  •  France (Paris), Molière Award for the Best Show in an Independent Theatre for Le Visiteur (The Visitor).
  •  France (Paris), Molière Author Award and Molière Award for the Best Newcomer for Le Visiteur.
• 1995
  •  France, University of Artois first novel award for La Secte des égoïstes (The Sect of the Egoists)
• 1996
  •  France (Paris), two Molière Award nominations for Variations énigmatiques (Enigma Variations).
• 1997
  •  Germany, Cologne City Theatre Prize for Le Libertin (The Libertine).
  •  France, six Molière Award nominations for Le Libertin.
• 1998
  •  France, Balzac Academy Prize and two Molière Award nominations for Frederick ou le Boulevard du Crime (Frederick, or The Boulevard of Crime).
• 2000
  •  France, seven Molière Award nominations for Hôtel des deux mondes (Between Worlds).
• 2000/2001
  •  France, appointed Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters).
• 2001
  •  France, Elle Magazine Readers' Prize for L'Evangile selon Pilate (The Gospel According to Pilate). The novel was nominated for several literary prizes in the same year.
  •  France, Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française (French Academy Theatre Prize) for his literary output in its entirety.
• 2004
  •  France, Readers' Prize of the Society of Authors and Literature from Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes.
  •  France, Jean-Bernard Prize from the French Academy of Medicine for Oscar et la Dame rose (Oscar and the Lady in Pink).
  •  France, Chronos Prize for Oscar et la Dame rose.
  •  France, Lire Magazine conducted a survey of French citizens to find out which "books changed their lives". Oscar et la Dame rose was cited along with the Bible, The Three Musketeers and The Little Prince.
  •  Germany, Deutscher Bücherpreis – Publikumspreis (Audience Choice in the German Book Awards) for his novella Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran.
  •  Germany, Die Quadriga Prize for "his humanity and the wisdom which his humour brings people".
• 2005
  •   Switzerland, Chronos Prize for Oscar et la Dame rose.
  •  France, nomination for the Molière Best Actor Award for L'Evangile selon Pilate.
  •  France, Rotary Prize for L'Enfant de Noé (Noah's Child).
• 2006
  •  Belgium, Foreigners' Prize awarded by the Scriptores Christiani (Christian Writers) for Milarepa; Oscar and the Lady in Pink, Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran; and The Visitor.
• 2009
  •  France, Meung-sur-Loire for Ulysse Bagdad (Ulysses from Baghdad), prix des Grands Espaces.
  •  Italy, Italy, Scrivere per Amore Prize, for La Rêveuse d'Ostende (The Woman with the Bouquet).
• 2010
  •  France, France, Goncourt Short Story Prize for Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange (Concerto to the Memory of an Angel).
  •  Russia, Russia, The Reading Petersburg Prize for his work in its entirety.
• 2012
  •  Spain, Spain, Ola de Oro Prize for his film Oscar et la Dame rose.
  •  France, France, Agrippa-d'Aubigné Prize, awarded by the Lions Club for his book La Femme au miroir (Three Women in a Mirror).
  •  France, France, Grand Prix Ardua 2012, awarded by the Regional Society of Aquitaine Graduates.
• 2013
  •  Ukraine, Ukraine, received a medal for his contribution to cultural and artistic development (the most prestigious Ukrainian cultural award).
• 2014
  •  Poland, Poland, Reading Ambassador Prize, awarded by the Polish Book Institute.
• 2016
  •  Belgium, Belgium 21 July 2016, he was made Commander of the Order of the Crown by King Philippe of Belgium.
  •  Canada, Canada, 22 November 2016, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sherbrooke.
• 2017
  •  France, France, Paris-Lyon Group Literary Prize.