Didier Decoin

Background

Didier Decoin was born on March 13, 1945, in France. He is a son of Henri Decoin and Jeanne Charpenay.

Education

Didier Decoin studied at Institution Notre Dame De Sainte Croix.

Career

Didier Decoin started his career as a journalist at France Soir. He also wrote articles for Le Figaro, Les Nouvelles littéraires, and VOD. Didier Decoin worked at radio Europe 1 for a short time. Along with journalism, he began a career as a novelist. His first novel La Proces a Tamour was published in 1966 and translated in English in 1967. Among Decoin’s other works that have been translated into English are Laurence, a 1969 novel translated two years later by Helen Eustis as Laurence, A Love Story, and Abraham de Brooklyn, translated in 1974 by Elaine P. Halperin as Abraham of Brooklyn.

Didier Decoin also adapted scripts for television. He worked as a screenwriter for such films as Les Misérables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Balzac and Napoleon.

Achievements

• Didier Decoin is a French writer and screenwriter, who is famous for adaptation of scripts for such films as Les Misérables (2000) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1999). He also wrote books A Love Story and The Case Against Love.
  
  In 1997 he won the Prix Goncourt prize for his novel John L’Enfer. He is also a president of the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes.

Works

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• book

  • Laurence: A Love Story

    (To the young French student visiting the hospital in New ...)

    1971
  • The Office of Gardens and Ponds

    (A mesmerizing fable with a difference, set in Japan over ...)

    2017
  • The Case Against Love 1976
  • Abraham De Brooklyn 1974

• movie

  • Napoleon

    (From the campaign that transformed the Corsican outsider ...)

    2002
  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    (The Count of Monte Cristo tells the dramatic story of Edm...)

    1999
  • Les Misérables

    (After spending nearly twenty years imprisoned for stealin...)

    2000

Membership

In 1995 Didier Decoin became the Secretary of the Académie Goncourt. In 2007 Decoin was elected president of the association Les écrivains de Marine. In 2012, he was unanimously elected president of the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes.

Connections

Didier Decoin is married and has three children, one of whom is the writer Julien Decoin.

Father:

Henri Decoin

Henri Decoin was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964.

Mother:

Jeanne Charpenay

Son:

Julien Decoin

Julien Decoin is a French writer and assistant director.

Brother:

Jacques Decoin