Didier Decoin (born 13 March 1945) is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

in 1977.

Biography

He is the son of filmmaker

Henri Decoin Henri Decoin (18 March 1890 – 4 July 1969) was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held the national record in the 500 ...

. He began his career as a newspaper journalist at ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''VOD'', and radio

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. At the same time he started writing. While continuing his writing, he became writer in film and television (and adapted scripts for television as the major TV films ''Les Misérables'', ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', ''Balzac'' and ''Napoleon''). In 1995, he became the Secretary of the

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Bibliography

Novels

* ''Le Procès à l'Amour'' (Seuil, 1966) (Bourse Del Duca). See * ''La Mise au monde'' (Seuil, 1967) * ''Laurence'' (Seuil, 1969) * ''Elisabeth ou Dieu seul le sait'' (Seuil, 1970) (prix des Quatre Jurys) * ''Abraham de Brooklyn'' (Seuil, 1971) (prix des Libraires) * ''Ceux qui vont s'aimer'' (Seuil, 1973) * ''Un policeman'' (Seuil, 1975) * ''John l'Enfer'' (Seuil, 1977) (

) * '' Le bureau des jardins et des étangs' (Stock,2017) * ''La Dernière Nuit'' (Balland, 1978) * ''L'Enfant de la mer de Chine'' (Seuil, 1981 ) * ''Les Trois vies de Babe Ozouf'' (Seuil, 1983) * ''Autopsie d'une étoile'' (Seuil, 1987) * ''Meurtre à l'anglaise'' (Mercure de France, 1988) * ''La Femme de chambre du Titanic'' (Seuil, 1991) - basis for the 1997 film '' The Chambermaid on the Titanic'' * ''Docile'' (Seuil, 1994) * ''La Promeneuse d'oiseaux'' (Seuil, 1996) * ''La Route de l'aéroport'' (Fayard, 1997) * ''Louise'' (Seuil, 1998) * ''Madame Seyerling'' (Seuil, 2002) * ''Avec vue sur la Mer'' (Nil Editions, 2005), Prix du Cotentin 2005, Prix Livre & Mer Henri-Queffélec 2006 * ''Henri ou Henry: le roman de mon père'' (Stock, mai 2006) * ''Est-ce ainsi que les femmes meurent'' (Grasset, février 2009) * '' Le bureau des jardins et des étangs'' (Stock, 2017)

Essays

* ''Il fait Dieu'' (Julliard 1975, Fayard 1997) * ''La Nuit de l'été'' (with film by J.C. Brialy, Balland 1979) * ''La Bible racontée aux enfants'' (Calmann-Levy) * ''Il était une joie... Andersen'' (Ramsay, 1982) * ''Béatrice en enfer'' (Lieu Commun, 1984 ) * ''L'Enfant de Nazareth'' (with Marie-Hélène About, Nouvelle Cité, 1989) * ''Elisabeth Catez ou l'Obsession de Dieu'' (Balland, 1991), Prix de littérature religieuse 1992 * ''Lewis et Alice'' (Laffont, 1992) * ''Jésus, le Dieu qui riait'' (Stock, 1999) * "Dictionnaire amoureux de la Bible"

Collaborative works

* ''La Hague,'' with Natacha Hochman (photography) (Isoète, 1991) * ''Cherbourg,'' with Natacha Hochman (photography) (Isoète, 1992) * ''Presqu'île de lumière,'' with Patrick Courault (photography) (Isoète, 1996) * ''Sentinelles de lumière,'' with Jean-Marc Coudour (photography) (Desclée de Brouwer, 1997)

Screenplays

* ''La Merveilleuse Visite'' (dir.

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, 1973) * ''La Bible'' (dir.

, 1976) * '' I as in Icarus'' (dir.

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, 1983) * ' (dir.

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, 1987) * ''Un bon petit diable'' (dir.

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) * ''

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, 1987) * '' Dancing Machine'' (dir. Gilles Béhat, 1990) * ''

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'' (dir.

, 1991) * '' Mouche'' (dir.

, 1992, incomplete film) * ''Des feux mal éteints'' (dir. Serge Moati, 1994) * ''

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'' (dir. Peter Kassovitz, 1999) * ''

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'' (dir.

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, 1999, TV miniseries) * ' (dir.

, 1999, TV miniseries) * '' Le Roi danse'' (dir.

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(2000) * ''

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, 2000, TV miniseries)

External links

"Didier Decoin", ''Academie Goncourt''
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