Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company

Les Éditions de Minuit Les Éditions de Minuit (, ''Midnight Press'') is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1941, during the French Resistance of World War II, and is still publishing books today. History Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer an ...

with Pierre de Lescure. Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, he joined the Resistance during the World War II occupation of northern France and his texts were published using the pseudonym Vercors (a reference to the Resistance: see Battle of Vercors). Several of his novels have

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. The 1952 novel '' Les Animaux dénaturés'' (translated into English variously as ''You Shall Know Them'', ''Borderline'', and ''The Murder of the Missing Link'') was made into the movie '' Skullduggery'' (1970) featuring

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and Susan Clark, and examines the question of what it means to be human. ''Colères'' (translated into English as ''The Insurgents'') is about the quest for immortality. In 1960 he published ''Sylva'', a novel about a fox who becomes a woman, inspired by

David Garnett David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was an English writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny", by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life. Early ...

's novel ''

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'' (1922). The English-language version, translated by his wife

Rita Barisse Rita Barisse (12 May 1917 – 25 April 2001) was a British journalist, writer and translator. She was the second wife of the writer Jean Bruller, also known as Vercors, and collaborated with him on works released under that pen name. Biography ...

, was a finalist for the 1963

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.List of Hugo nominees
His historical novel ''

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'' (1985) presents a very intelligent Anne as having determinedly set about marrying

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in order to separate England from Papal power and strengthen England's independence.

Bibliography

* ''Patapoufs et Filifers'' ('' Fattypuffs and Thinifers''; illustrator only) (1930) * ''

Le Silence de la mer ''Le Silence de la mer'' (, ''The Silence of the Sea'') is a French novel written during the summer of 1941 and published in early 1942 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". Published secretly in German-occupied Paris, the book quick ...

'' (The Silence of the Sea) (1942) * ''Ce jour-là'' (1943) * ''L'impuissance'' (1944) * ''Le Cheval et la Mort'' (1944) * ''Le Songe'' (1943) * ''Les Armes de la nuit'' (1946) * ''Les Yeux et la lumière'' (1948) * ''La Puissance du jour'' (1951) * '' Les Animaux dénaturés'' (1952) * ''Colères'' (1956) * ''Sur ce rivage'', I – III (1958–60) * ''Clémentine'' (1959) * ''Sylva'' (1961) * '' Quota ou les Pléthoriens'' (1966) * ''Le Radeau de la Méduse'' (1969) * ''Sillages'' (1972) * ''Sept sentiers du désert'' (1972) * ''Les Chevaux du temps'' (1977) * ''Le Piège à loup'' (1979) * ''Moi, Aristide Briand'' (1981) * ''Anne Boleyn'' (Anne Boleyn: Forty Crucial Months in England's Evolution) (1985)

Essays

*''La Marche à l'étoile'' (1943) *''Souffrance de mon pays'' (1945) *''Portrait d'une amitié'' (1946) *''Plus ou moins homme'' (1948) *''Les pas dans le sable'' (1954) *''Les divagations d'un français en Chine'' (1956) *''P. P. C. Pour prendre congé'' (1957) *''La bataille du silence'' (1967) *''Questions sur la vie'' (1973) *''Tendre naufrage'' (1974) *''Ce que je crois'' (1975) *''Théâtre'' (1978)

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