Romain Gary

✶May 21, 1914

†December 2, 1980

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Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

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