Analysis of Romain Gary's works in Radio Show

Romain  was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Jean Seberg.

 

Gary became one of France's most popular and prolific writers, writing more than 30 novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under a pseudonym.

 

He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel, published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975. The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of that book without knowing his identity. Gary's cousin's son Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar. Gary also published as Shatan Bogat, Rene Deville and Fosco Sinibaldi, as well under his birth name Roman Kacew.

 

This program was broadcast for the first time on Thursday, and those who are interested can listen to its rebroadcast on Monday, , at 9 pm on the "Story Labyrinth" program. Behnaz Bostandoust has narrated the story and  it has analyzed and studied in the expert section with Kayhan Bahmani. Gary's biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and  the show is produced by zhaleh Mohammad Ali