Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.

Career

Levy was born in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and ...

, and studied management and computers at

Paris Dauphine University Paris Dauphine University - PSL () is a Grande École and public institution of higher education and research based in Paris, France, Collegiate university, constituent college of PSL University. As of 2022, Dauphine has 9,400 students in 8 fields ...

. In the late 1990s, Levy wrote a story that his sister, then a screenwriter, encouraged him to send to Editions Robert Laffont, who immediately decided to publish ''

If Only It Were True ''If Only It Were True'' () is the first novel by the French author Marc Levy. It was released in 1999 by Éditions Robert Laffont, and was translated into English the following year. The novel has been adapted into an array of motion pictures, ...

''. Before it was published,

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( DreamWorks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, '' Just like Heaven'', produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring

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and

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, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005. After ''If Only It Were True'', Marc Levy began writing full-time. Levy was first married at the age of 26; he had a son, the inspiration for ''If Only It Were True''. He is married and lives in New York City.An Interview with Marc Levy, France’s Widest Read Author
Anne McCarthy, July 7, 2017 ''www.francetoday.com'', accessed 25 February 2021

Bibliography

* ''

'', 2000 (adapted for film in 2005) * ''Finding You'', 2001 (adapted for television in 2007) * ''Seven Days for an Eternity'', 2003 * ''In Another Life'', 2004 * '' Vous revoir'', 2005 (the sequel to ''If Only It Were True)'' * ''London Mon Amour'', 2006 (adapted for film in 2008) * ''Children of Freedom'', 2007 * ''All Those Things We Never Said'', 2008. * ''The First Day'', 2009 * ''The First Night'', 2009 (the sequel to ''The First Day'') * ''The Shadow Thief'', 2010 * ''The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry'', 2011 * ''Replay'', 2012 * ''Stronger than Fear'', 2013 * ''Another Idea of Happiness'', 2014 * ''P.S. from Paris'', AmazonCrossing, 2015, trans. Sam Taylor * ''The Last of the Stanfields'', AmazonCrossing, 2019, trans. Daniel Wasserman * ''A Woman Like Her'', AmazonCrossing, 2020, trans
Kate Deimling
* ''Hope'', AmazonCrossing, 2021, trans. Hannah Dickens-Doyle

Filmography

* ''La tortue sur le dos'' (1978) - Gus, le voyageur * ''L'amour dure trois ans'' (2011) - Himself Short film * ''La Lettre de Nabila'' directed for

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, adapted from a short story he co-wrote with Sophie Fontanel.La Lettre de Nabila Un Court-métrage de Marc Lévy, 2004
''www.unifrance.org'', accessed 27 February 2021

References

External links

Site officiel

The story behind Replay – Online Essay by Marc Levy
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