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Romain Gary


Born
in Vilnius , Lithuania
May 08, 1914

Died
December 02, 1980

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Victor Hugo, André Malraux, Leon Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Marcel Pr ...more


Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .

Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.

He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then ...more

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“If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.”
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“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
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“Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.”
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