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Franco-Belgian playwright

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (French pronunciation:[eʁikemanɥɛlʃmit]; hereditary 28 March 1960) is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and essayist, as well as a film leader. His plays have been staged have as a feature over fifty countries all over high-mindedness world.^[1]

Life

Early years

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's parents were organization of physical education and sport, gain his father later became a therapist and masseur in paediatric hospitals. Sharptasting was also a French boxing titleist while his mother was a medal-winning runner. His grandfather was an craftsman jeweller.

The "Classiques & Contemporains" number of La Nuit de Valognes (Don Juan on Trial) claims that Schmitt depicts himself as a rebellious paltry who detested received wisdom and was sometimes prone to violent outbursts. According to Schmitt, however, it was metaphysics that saved him and taught him to be himself and to retain that he was free. One allot, his mother took him to high-mindedness Théâtre des Célestins to see spick performance of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano inclined Bergerac starring Jean Marais. Her mortal was moved to tears and say publicly seeds of his passion for authority theatre were sown. After the strut, he told his mother that appease wanted to "be like the workman on the poster"; his mother supposition he meant the actor, Jean Marais, but he replied: "No!" and interpret out the name on the sticker "Edmond Rostand". He then began vertical write. Later, he would say: "At sixteen, I realised (or decided) ditch I was a writer, and Distracted wrote, produced and acted in wooly first plays at high school." Curry favor improve his style, he threw with frenzied zeal into exercises resembling pastiche and re-writing, especially Molière.

Education

After preparatory classes at the Lycée shelter Parc for France's elite universities, Schmitt passed the entrance exam to rectitude École normale supérieure. He was regular student there between 1980 and 1985, leaving with the top French tutoring qualification in philosophy (agrégé de philosophie). In 1987, he was awarded rectitude degree of PhD for his point "Diderot and Metaphysics" at the Paris-Sorbonne University, which was published in 1997 with the title "Diderot or prestige Philosophy of Seduction".

He has fleeting in Brussels since 2002 and acquired Belgian citizenship in 2008.^[2]

Career

Schmitt spent fillet military service teaching at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, afterwards spending two geezerhood as a student teaching assistant send up the University of Besançon. He went on to teach at the revitalization school in Cherbourg before being fit lecturer at the University of Chambéry, where he taught for four life.

On the night of 4 Feb 1989, he became separated from realm companions during an expedition to greatness Ahaggar Desert and, in the cavernous expanses of the Sahara, he underwent a spiritual experience that he defined as nothing short of a ecclesiastical revelation. In that instant, he says that his mind was filled take on the words "Everything is justified". Schmitt believes that it was that outstanding experience that enabled him to open into writing. He describes it generate his novel Night of Fire (La Nuit de Feu), published in Sept 2015.

During the 1990s, his plays brought him rapid success in very many countries. Don Juan on Trial was the first to be performed accomplish September 1991 at Espace 44 nickname Nantes. His next play, The Visitor, won three prizes at the Molière Award Ceremony in 1994. It was then that he decided to cause himself entirely to writing, and inaccuracy gave up his lecturing position slate the University of Chambéry.

In 1996, Enigma Variations received its first execution, starring Alain Delon and Francis Huster in the lead roles. In 1998, his play, Frédérick or Crime Boulevard (Frédérick ou le boulevard du crime), opened simultaneously in France and Frg, with Jean-Paul Belmondo acting in birth original production at the Théâtre Marigny. In 2001, Mr Ibrahim and prestige Flowers of the Koran (M. Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran) was both staged and published in Writer and Germany. In 2004, the emergency supply sold over 250,000 copies in Writer and 300,000 in Germany.

Schmitt has also written three one-act plays dispense humanitarian causes. Francis Huster played loftiness devil in The Devil's School (L'École du diable), which Schmitt wrote keep an eye on an Amnesty International evening. One Troop and One Nights was written let somebody see the "Culture Changes Life" campaign (La culture ça change la vie) organized by the French charity The People's Aid (Secours populaire).

In the absolutely 2000s, he wrote several novels remarkable short stories. Published in 2000, The Gospel According to Pilate, a account about Jesus Christ told from primacy point of view of Pilate, won critical acclaim and massive sales. Interpretation next year, he produced another fresh about a contentious historical figure: The Alternative Hypothesis (La Part de l'autre) is an alternate history in which the young Adolf Hitler is shore 1908 accepted into the Academy doomed Fine Art in Vienna, setting him on the path to become unadorned recognized painter; what follows changes say publicly course of history for the whole world. He then wrote a chimerical and satirical version of the Faust myth, When I was a Travail of Art (Lorsque j'étais une work d'art – 2002).

The tales go comprise his Cycle de l'Invisible have to one`s name delighted readers and audiences in rectitude French-speaking world and beyond, both imitation stage and in the bookshops. Milarepa deals with Buddhism, Mr Ibrahim humbling the Flowers of the Koran deals with Sufism, Oscar and the Gal in Pink (Oscar et la Girl rose – 2002) with Christianity, Noah's Child (L'Enfant de Noé – 2004) with Judaism, The Sumo wrestler Who Could Not Get Fat (Le Sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir – 2009) with Zen Buddhism, and The Ten Children Madam Ming Never Had (Les Dix Enfants que madame Sleep-inducing n'a jamais eus – 2012) deals with Confucianism. They are read hard millions of readers of all generations.

Keen to explore new modes confiscate expression, Schmitt wrote a work reproach autofiction, My Life with Mozart (Ma Vie avec Mozart), which was obtainable in eight different countries from Southbound Korea to Norway. This composition advance music and words can also well performed by actors and instrumentalists. Import the same vein as the regulate film he wrote and directed, Schmitt published a collection of short legendary, Odette Toulemonde and other stories, clean up celebration of women and their pilgrimage for happiness. Odette Toulemonde has toured Europe as both a book contemporary a film. The Dreamer of Ostend (La Rêveuse d'Ostende), a lyrical coverage to the power of the ingenuity, followed in 2007, while a 3rd collection appeared in 2010: Concerto study the Memory of an Angel (Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange), quaternity stories that deal with the thesis of redemption and which won influence "Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle". Fastidious fourth collection, Two Gentlemen of Brussels (Les Deux Messieurs de Bruxelles – 2012), explores the theme of unobtrusive love, while a fifth, The Repayment of Forgiveness (La Vengeance du Pardon) (2017) concerns forgiveness. These collections shape unique for the way in which, like a novel, each has regular beginning, a middle and an take, each volume exploring a specific in the balance over several stories.

Returning to righteousness novel in 2008 with the proclamation of Ulysses from Baghdad, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt again revealed his talent for personality a "chameleon story-teller" (as described moisten Fabienne Pascaud in the magazine Télérama) in a tale about a adult who undertakes a journey such orangutan millions make in search of elegant safe place to go: the tale of a stowaway. A contemporary picaresque saga about the human condition, nobleness novel ponders the question: are purlieus the stronghold of our identities hunger for the last bastion of our illusions?

A keen amateur musician with systematic passion for Mozart, Schmitt has troublefree his mark in the world engage in opera with a translation into Romance of two of Mozart's works: The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. He has also composed music near produced a CD.

These days, let go continues to write fiction and plays but focuses on writing screenplays. Odette Toulemonde (2007), a film about profit starring Catherine Frot and Albert Dupontel, was followed by a screen exercise of Oscar and the Lady mop the floor with Pink (2009), with Michèle Laroque, Focal point von Sydow, Amira Casar and Mylène Demongeot in the lead roles.

Schmitt is one of the most about read and performed contemporary French-language authors in the world. His works receive been translated into 45 languages stomach staged in over 50 countries. Surmount plays are constantly being put absurdity in new productions and revivals superimpose both national and private theatres everywhere the world and are now section of contemporary repertoire.

In January 2012, Schmitt announced that he was duty over as director of the Théâtre Rive Gauche in association with decency producer and actor, Bruno Metzger. Pursuing a period of renovation and restoration, the Théâtre Rive Gauche opened loom over doors in September 2012 and packed together hosts contemporary productions.

On Saturday 9 June 2012, the Royal Academy show signs French Language and Literature of Belgique awarded Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Seat 33 (foreign literary member) replacing Hubert Nyssen; Stool 33 was once occupied by Anna de Noailles, Colette and Jean Filmmaker. The public session and reception was held on 25 May 2013.

In 2015, he published Night of Fire, an account of the revelation explicit experienced in the Ahaggar Desert outer shell 1989 and which turned the badger atheist into a believer. He having an important effect declares himself to be an "agnostic who believes". In answer to excellence question "Does God exist?" he replies, "I don't know but I estimate so." In 2016 Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt was unanimously elected by his peers adherent of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, he occupies Edmonde Charles-Roux's betrayal and published a detective novel start again violence and the sacred, The Fellow Who Could See Through Faces (L'Homme qui voyait à travers les visages).

In the spring of 2017, subside talked publicly about his childhood favour adolescence in When I Grow Top up, I'm Going to be a Child (Plus tard, je serai un enfant), a book of interviews produced wedge Catherine Lalanne.

Schmitt has outlined block up eight-volume epic,^[3] titled The Passage Rebuke Time, recounting the history of humanity.^[4] To date, only the first quartet parts have been published, namely Paradis perdus (2021) — English title, Paradises Lost (forthcoming, 2024); La porte shelter ciel (“The gate of heaven”, 2021); Le soleil sombre (“The dark sun”, 2022) and La lumière du bonheur (“The light of happiness”, 2024).

Other activities

In 2016, Schmitt was a observer at the Rio Olympic Games skirt Patrick Montel, Alexandre Boyon, Stéphane Diagana and Nelson Monfort on France Télévisions.

Awards

• 1994
  •  France (Paris), Molière Award funding the Best Show in an Unfettered Theatre for Le Visiteur (The Visitor).
  •  France (Paris), Molière Author Award and Molière Award for the Best Newcomer keep Le Visiteur.
• 1995
• 1996
  •  France (Paris), duo Molière Award nominations for Variations énigmatiques (Enigma Variations).
• 1997
• 1998
  •  France, Balzac Establishment Prize and two Molière Award nominations for Frederick ou le Boulevard armour Crime (Frederick, or The Boulevard presentation Crime).
• 2000
  •  France, seven Molière Award nominations for Hôtel des deux mondes (Between Worlds).
• 2000/2001
• 2001
  •  France, Elle Magazine Readers' Prize for L'Evangile selon Pilate (The Gospel According to Pilate). The original was nominated for several literary vandalization in the same year.
  •  France, Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française (French Academy Theatre Prize) for his learned output in its entirety.
• 2004
• 2005
  •  Switzerland, Chronos Prize for Oscar et dampen Dame rose.
  •  France, nomination for the Molière Best Actor Award for L'Evangile selon Pilate.
  •  France, Rotary Prize for L'Enfant sustain Noé (Noah's Child).
• 2006
  •  Belgium, Foreigners' Like awarded by the Scriptores Christiani (Christian Writers) for Milarepa; Oscar and prestige Lady in Pink, Mr Ibrahim meticulous the Flowers of the Koran; snowball The Visitor.
• 2009
  •  France, Meung-sur-Loire for Ulysse Bagdad (Ulysses from Baghdad), prix nonsteroid Grands Espaces.
  •  Italy, Italy, Scrivere per Amore Prize, for La Rêveuse d'Ostende (The Woman with the Bouquet).
• 2010
  •  France, Writer, Goncourt Short Story Prize for Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange (Concerto to the Memory of an Angel).
  •  Russia, Russia, The Reading Petersburg Prize convey his work in its entirety.
• 2012
  •  Spain, Spain, Ola de Oro Prize sustenance his film Oscar et la Girl rose.
  •  France, France, Agrippa-d'Aubigné Prize, awarded because of the Lions Club for his retain La Femme au miroir (Three Brigade in a Mirror).
  •  France, France, Grand Prix Ardua 2012, awarded by the Resident Society of Aquitaine Graduates.
• 2013
  •  Ukraine, State, received a medal for his imposition to cultural and artistic development (the most prestigious Ukrainian cultural award).
• 2014
  •  Poland, Poland, Reading Ambassador Prize, awarded antisocial the Polish Book Institute.
• 2016
  •  Belgium, Belgique 21 July 2016, he was ended Commander of the Order of description Crown by King Philippe of Belgium.
  •  Canada, Canada, 22 November 2016, received pull out all the stops honorary doctorate from the University be frightened of Sherbrooke.
• 2017
  •  France, France, Paris-Lyon Group Bookish Prize.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Sect of the Egoists ("La Secte des égoïstes", 1994)
• The Gospel According to Pilate ("L'Évangile selon Pilate", 2000), Grand prix des lectrices de Elle
• The Alternative Hypothesis ("La part de l'autre", 2001)
• When I Was a Work cataclysm Art ("Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art", 2002)
• My Life with Mozart ("Ma fight avec Mozart", 2005)
• Ulysses from Baghdad ("Ulysse from Bagdad", 2008)
• ("La Femme au miroir", 2011)
• ("Les Perroquets de la place d'Arezzo", 2013)
• ("L'Élixir d'amour", 2014)
• ("Le poison d'amour", 2014)
• ("La nuit de feu", 2015)
• ("L'Homme qui voyait à travers les visages", 2016)
• ("La Traversée des temps - tome 1 - Paradis perdus", 2021)
• ("La Traversée des temps - tome 2 - La Court du ciel", 2021)
• ("La Traversée des temps - tome 3 - Soleil sombre", 2022)
• ("La Traversée des temps - manual 4 - La Lumière du bonheur", 2024)

Narratives

The Cycle of the Invisible ("Le Cycle de l'invisible")

Short stories

Tales

• La Nuit dwell feu (2015)
• Journal d'un amour perdu (2019)
• Le Défi de Jérusalem (2023)

Autobiography

Essays

Theater plays

• Don Juan on Trial ("La nuit de Valognes", 1991)
• The Visitor ("Le Visiteur", 1993)
• Golden Joe ("Golden Joe", 1995)
• Enigma Variations ("Variations énigmatiques", 1996)
• The Libertine ("Le Libertin", 1997)
• Frederick shudder the Crime Boulevard ("Frédérick ou coiled Boulevard du Crime", 1998)
• The Devil's School ("L'École du diable", 1999)
• Between Worlds ("Hôtel des deux mondes", 1999)
• The Gag ("Le Bâillon", 2000)
• One Thousand and One Days ("Mille et un jours", 2001)
• Partners snare crime ("Petits crimes conjugaux", 2004)
• Sentimental Tectonics ("La tectonique des sentiments", 2008)
• ("Le Bossu", 2008) -- from a novel wishywashy Paul Féval)
• ("Milady", 2010)
• ("Kiki van Beethoven", 2010)
• ("Le Journal d'Anne Frank", 2012) -- punishment The Diary of Anne Frank
• ("Un homme trop facile", 2013)
• ("The Guitrys", 2013)
• ("La trahison d'Einstein", 2014)
• ("Georges et Georges", 2014)
• ("Si enormity recommençait", 2014)
• ("Le joueur d'échecs", 2014) -- from The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
• ("L'Élixir d'amour, 2015)
• ("Hibernatus, 2015)
• ("Vingt-quatres heures lip la vie d'une femme, 2015) come across Twenty-Four Hours in the Life vacation a Woman by Stefan Zweig
• ("Libres sont les papillons, 2016) from Butterflies utter Free by Leonard Gershe
• ("Bungalow 21, 2023)

Opera translations

• Les Noces de Figaro
• Don Giovanni

Selected filmography

References

Notes

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