Romain Gary

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Romain Gary (born Roman Kacew) was a French novelist, diplomat, film producer, and World War II aviator of Jewish origins, who was also known by the pen name Émile Ajar.

He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names.

Early life

Gary was born in Villepolis (Yiddish: Roman Katsev, Russian овом еев, Roman Leibovich Katsev) (at that time in the Russian Empire) He gave many different interpretations of his parents' origins, ancestry, occupation, and his own childhood in his books and interviews. Mina Owczyska (1879-1941), a Lithuanian Jew, was a Jewish actor from vennys (Svintsyán), and his father, Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942), was a businessman from Trakai (Trok). Both couples married in 1925, but Arieh-Leib remarried in 1925. Gary later revealed that his real father was Ivan Mosjoukine, with whom his actor mother had worked and to whom he bore a striking similarity. In his book Promise at Dawn, Mosjoukine appears. They were deported to central Russia in 1915 and remained in Moscow until 1920. They resurfaced in Vilnius and then migrated to Warsaw, Lithuania. Gary and his mother immigrated illegally to Nice, France, when he was fourteen years old. Gary studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris, converted to Catholicism by his mother. In Salon-de-Provence and Avord Air Base, near Bourges, he learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force.

Personal life and final years

Gary's first wife, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch, editor of The Wilder Shores of Love, was the British writer, reporter, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch. They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. Gary was married to American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary, from 1962 to 1970. "My father wasn't around when he was around," Diego Gary said of him. He used to greet me but he was somewhere else."

Gary threatened Jean Seberg with a duel after finding out that he had an affair with Clint Eastwood, but Eastwood turned down.

Gary died in Paris on December 2nd, 1980, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Seberg's suicide had no connection to his death, according to a note left by the former president. He also stated in his note that he was Émile Ajar.

Gary was cremated in Père Lachaise Cemetery, and his ashes were scattered in the Mediterranean Sea near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

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Career

Gary was the only one not to be accepted as an officer out of nearly 300 cadets in his class, and despite completing all aspects of his curriculum, he was the only one not to be commissioned as an officer. He said the military establishment was suspicious of being a foreigner and a Jew. He made a sergeant on 1 February 1940 in Potez 25 and Goland Léo-20 aircraft, who only flownt for 250 hours. He was dissatisfied with the armistice after hearing General de Gaulle's radio appeal, he opted to go to England. After failed attempts, he travelled from Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque in a Potez. Made adjutant on joining the Free French and serving on Bristol Blenheims, he saw combat around Africa and was promoted to second lieutenant. He returned to England to train on Boston IIIs. His pilot was blinded, albeit temporarily, and Gary led him to the bombing site and back home, the third landing being a success. This, as well as the subsequent BBC interview and Evening Standard newspaper article, were a significant part of his career. He served as a captain in the Free French Air Forces' London headquarters. Lorraine, a bombardier-observer in the Groupe de bombardment Lorraine, No. He was involved in over 25 successful sorties, logging over 65 hours of air time. He renamed Romain Gary during this period. He was praised for his brave service during the war, including Compagnon de la Libération and Légion d'honneur. Éducation européenne, his first book, was published in 1945. He began working in Bulgaria and Switzerland immediately after his service in the war. He was appointed secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in 1952. He became Consul General in Los Angeles in 1956 and became familiar with Hollywood.

Gary Pavlowitch's nephew Paul Pavlowitch claimed that Gary also produced several works under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, according to a book that was published in 1981. Gary hired Pavlowitch to play Ajar in public appearances, allowing Gary to remain anonymous as the true designer of the Ajar works and thus winning the 1975 Goncourt Prize, his second win in violation of the prize's normal rules.

Gary also appeared under the pseudonyms Shatan Bogat and Fosco Sinibaldi.

Gary is one of France's most influential and prolific writers, authoring more than 30 books, essays, and memoirs, some of which were published under pseudonym.

He is the only one to win the Prix Goncourt twice. Only an author is given this award for French language literature. In 1956, Gary, who had already been rewarded for Les racines du ciel, published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym Émile Ajar. The Académie Goncourt awarded the award to the author of the book who had no idea who it was. Paul Pavlowitch, Gary's cousin, posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar. Gary Bogat, René Deville, and Fosco Sinibaldi were among his many publications under the name Roman Kacew, as well as under his birth name.

In addition to his success as a novelist, he wrote the screenplay for the motion picture The Longest Day and co-wrote and directed the film Kill! (1971), which starred his wife Jean Seberg at the time, was a film in which his wife appeared as an infant. He appeared at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979 as a member of the jury.

Following the cessation of the hostilities, Gary began his career as a diplomat in France's service, considering the benefits he received for his release. He served in Bulgaria (1946-1947), Paris (1948-1949), Switzerland (1951–1954), New York (1951–1954), where he frequently rubs shoulders with Father Tassin, who influenced him and inspired him, particularly in London (1955-1960), before being Consul General of France in Los Angeles (1956–1960). He remained unemployed in Paris until he was fired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1961).

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