Sébastien Japrisot

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Jean-Baptiste Rossi

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Born July 4, 1931
Marseille, France
Died March 4, 2003
Vichy, France
Pen name Sébastien Japrisot, Robert Huart
Occupation Author, screenwriter and film director
Nationality French
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Sébastien Japrisot (July 4, 1931 – March 4, 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".

Famous in the Francophony, he was little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.

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[edit] Biography

Sébastien Japrisot made his mark as an author at seventeen, when his novel Les Mal Partis was published in France and America. He followed this with outstanding translations of J. D. Salinger's novels. He pursued a successful career in advertising and publicity.

In 1962, he had an intriguing idea for a crime novel. As he did not feel easy about his entry into this new field he used an anagram of his own name as his pseudonym. However, the reception of The 10.30 from Marseille left no one in doubt that a great crime writer had made his debut. The book was quickly made into a film by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, etc.

His second mystery was Trap for Cinderella. This won the Grand Prix de Littérature policière for 1963. The film starred Dany Carrel, and Madeleine Robinson.

He followed this with The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, which won him a second major French award - Le Prix d'Honneur 1966. In England it won the Crime Writer's Association Silver Dagger awarded for the best Thriller published in the United Kingdom in 1968 by a foreign writer.

He was a scriptwriter and film director. One Deadly Summer was made into a film starring Isabelle Adjani. A Very Long Engagement was an international bestseller and won the Prix Interallié.

[edit] French bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Les Mal Partis - Prix de l'Unanimité 1966 (as J.-B. Rossi, Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, 1950)
  • Visages de l'amour et de la haine (as J.-B. Rossi, in Réalités n° 57,1950)
  • L'Odyssexe (illustrated album by Trez, as J.-B. Rossi, Éd. Originale Denoël, 1965)
  • L'Été meurtrier - Prix des Deux-Magots 1978, Prix de l'Académie suédoise 1978 (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1977). NB : film adaptation by Jean Becker, with Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon…
  • La Passion des femmes (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1986)
  • Un long dimanche de fiançailles, Prix Interallié 1991 (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1991). NB : film adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

[edit] Crime novels

  • Compartiment tueurs (Éd. Originale Denoël, coll. "Crime/club" n° 203, 1962). NB : film adaptation by Costa-Gavras, with Simone Signoret and Yves Montand,
  • Piège pour Cendrillon - Grand Prix de littérature policière 1963 (Éd. Originale Denoël, coll. "Crime/club" n° 209, 1963). NB : film adaptation by André Cayatte,
  • La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1966). NB : film adaptation by Anatole Litvak.


[edit] Screenplays

  • La Machine à parler d'amour (as J.-B. Rossi, L'Avant-scène cinéma n° 66, 01/1967)
  • Adieu l'ami (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1968). NB : directed by Jean Vautrin, with Charles Bronson and Alain Delon,
  • La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1972). NB : directed by René Clément, with Emmanuelle Béart.
  • Le Passager de la pluie (Éd. Originale Denoël, 1992). NB : directed by René Clément.

[edit] Translations in French

  • Hopalong Cassidy entre en jeu (Hopalong Cassidy With the Trail Herd), novel by Clarence E. Mulford as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 1, 1951)
  • Hopalong Cassidy et la couvée de l’aigle (Hopalong Cassidy With the Eagle’s Brood), novel by Clarence E. Mulford, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 2, 1951).
  • Hopalong Cassidy trouve un double (Hopalong Cassidy Returns), novel by Clarence E. Mulford, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 3, 1951)
  • Hopalong Cassidy : les Hors-la-loi de West Fork (Hopalong Cassidy and the Rustlers of West Fork, 1951), novel by Louis L'Amour, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 6, 1951). (NB : the name of the author in the main title is "Tex Burns")
  • Pistes dans la nuit (Trails by Night), novel by Tom J. Hopkins, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 7, 1951).
  • Hopalong Cassidy et les Compagnons du ranch 20 (Hopalong Cassidy, Bar 20, Rides Again) novel by Clarence E. Mulford, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 8, 1951).
  • Hopalong Cassidy : le Shérif de Twin River (Hopalong Cassidy serves a write), novel by Clarence E. Mulford (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 10, 1952).
  • Hopalong Cassidy : (Meurtres sur) la Piste des sept pins (Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines, 1951), novel by Louis L'Amour, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 11, 1952).
  • La Poursuite blanche (Murder in the Outlands), novel by James Beardsley Hendryx, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 12, 1952).
  • Hopalong Cassidy : Panique à Tasotal (Hopalong Cassidy and the Riders of High Rock, 1951), novel by Louis L'Amour as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 14, 1952).
  • Hopalong Cassidy : l’Inquiétant tireur (Hopalong Cassidy : Trouble Shooter, 1952), novel by Louis L'Amour, as Robert Huart (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. "Arizona" n° 16, 1953)
  • L'Attrape-Cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye, novel by J. D. Salinger (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. « Pavillons », 1953)
  • Mais... qui a tué Harry ? (The Trouble with Harry), novel by Jack Trevor Story (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, 1956)
  • Nouvelles (Nine Stories), J. D. Salinger (Éd. Originale Robert Laffont, coll. « Pavillons », 1961)

[edit] Collections

  • Écrit par Jean-Baptiste Rossi (coéd. Denoël-Éditions Robert Laffont, 1987)
  • Japrisot volume 1 (thriller novels) (Denoël, coll. "Des heures durant", 2003)
  • Japrisot volume 2 (novels) (Denoël, coll. "Des heures durant", 2004)

[edit] English translations

Books
Year of publication in France Original French title
Flag of France		 English title / translation
Flag of the United States Flag of the United Kingdom		 Publication
1950 Les Mal Partis The False Start
= Awakening
Transl. ?
  1. The False Start. London, Secker and Warburg, 1951, 212 p.
  2. Awakening. New York, Harper [1952], 244 p.
1950 Visages de l'amour et de la haine - -
1962 Compartiment tueurs The 10:30 from Marseille
= The Sleeping-car murders
Transl. by Francis Price
  1. The 10:30 from Marseille. Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday [1963], 181 p.
  2. The 10:30 from Marseille. London : Souvenir Press, 1964, 181 p.
  3. The Sleeping-car murders. Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1978, c1963, 181 p. ISBN 0140049924
  4. The Sleeping car murders. New York, N.Y. : Plume, [1997], 181 p. ISBN 0452277787
  5. The 10:30 from Marseille. London : Harvill Press, 1998, 214p. ISBN 1860464408 (pbk)
1963 Piège pour Cendrillon Trap for Cinderella
Transl. by Helen Weaver
  1. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1964, 171 p.
  2. London : Souvenir Press, 1965, 171 p.
  3. New York : Plume, 1997, 171 p. ISBN 0452277795
1965 L'Odyssexe - -
1966 La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil The Lady in the car with glasses and a gun
Transl. by Helen Weaver
  1. New York : Simon and Schuster, [1967], 240 p.
  2. London : Souvenir Press, 1968, 240 p. ISBN 0285500767
  3. New York : Penguin Books, 1980, 253 p. ISBN 0140053611 (pbk.)
  4. New York : Plume, [1997], 224 p. ISBN 0452277779
  5. London : Harvill, 1998, c1967, 233p. (Panther). ISBN 1860464394 (pbk)
1968 Adieu l'ami Goodbye, friend
Transl. by Patricia Allen Dreyfus
  1. London : Souvenir Press, 1969, 185 p. ISBN 0285502638
  2. New York : Simon and Schuster, [1969], 185 p.
  3. London : Corgi, 1971, 126 p. ISBN 055208705X (pbk)
1977 L'Été meurtrier One Deadly Summer
Transl. by Alan Sheridan
  1. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1980, 279 p. ISBN 0151693811
  2. Harmondsworth ; New York : Penguin Books, 1981, c1980, 297 p. (Penguin crime fiction). ISBN 014005846X (pbk.)
  3. New York : Plume, 1997. ISBN 0452277809
  4. London : Harvill, 2000, c1980, 279 p. ISBN 1860467733 (pbk.)
1986 La Passion des femmes Women in Evidence
= The Passion Of Women
Transl. by Ros Schwartz
  1. The Passion Of Women. New York : Crown, c1990, 312 p. ISBN 051756940X
  2. Women in evidence. Harpenden : No Exit, 1995, c1990, 310p. ISBN 1874061254 (pbk.)
  3. Women in evidence. New York, N.Y. : Plume, [2000], 326 p. ISBN 0452281628 (pbk.)
1991 Un long dimanche de fiançailles A Very Long Engagement
Transl. by Linda Coverdale
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993, 327 p. ISBN 0374283354
1992 Le Passager de la pluie Rider on the Rain
Transl. by Linda Coverdale
  1. London : Harvill, 1999, 150 p. ISBN 1860465420 (pbk)

[edit] Filmography

  • 1965 : Piège pour Cendrillon aka Trap for Cinderella (Screenwriter)
  • 1965 : The Sleeping Car Murders aka Compartiment tueurs (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
  • 1968 : Honor Among Thieves aka Adieu l'ami (Original Foreign title) aka Farewell, Friend (UK title) aka So Long, Friend (Screenwriter)
  • 1970 : Rider on the Rain aka Le Passager de la pluie (French title) aka Passenger of the Rain (Screenwriter)
  • 1972 : La Course du lièvre à travers les champs aka And Hope to Die (U.S. title) (Screenwriter)
  • 1975 : The Story of O aka Histoire d'O (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
  • 1975 : Folle à tuer aka Mad Enough To Kill (Screenwriter)
  • 1983 : One Deadly Summer aka L'Été meurtrier (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
  • 1987 : Juillet en septembre aka July In September [1988] (Director / Screenwriter)
  • 1999 : Les Enfants du marais aka Children of the Marshland (Screenwriter)
  • 2001 : Un crime au Paradis aka A Crime In Paradise (Screenwriter)
  • 2004 : Un long dimanche de fiançailles aka A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

[edit] Director - Filmography

  • Juillet en septembre (1988)
  • Les mal partis (as Jean-Baptiste Rossi) - Bad Starters (1976)
  • L'idée fixe (1961)
  • La machine à parler d'amour (as Jean-Baptiste Rossi) (1961)

[edit] Awards

  • 1963 : Grand Prix de Littérature policière for Piège pour Cendrillon (Denoël, 1963).
  • 1966 : Prix de l'Unanimité for Les Mal Partis
  • 1966 : Prix d'Honneur for La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
  • 1968 : Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year 1968 (Best Foreign) - The Crime Writer's Association for The Lady in the Car (Souvenir Press)
  • 1978 : Prix des Deux-Magots for L'Été meurtrier (Denoël, 1977)
  • 1981 : The Martin Beck Award - Svenska Deckarakademin (Académie suédoise) - for Vedergällningen (L'Été meurtrier)
  • 1984 : César de la meilleure adaptation cinématographique (Best Original Screenplay) - French Academy of Cinema - for L'Été meurtrier (film de Jean Becker, 1983).
  • 1991 : Prix Interallié for Un long dimanche de fiançailles (Denoël, 1991).
  • 1996 : Adult Great Read (Honorable Mention) - Northern California Independent Booksellers Associated (NCIBA) (USA) for A very long Engagement

[edit] Trivia

Sébastien Japrisot was an anagram of the author's real name Jean-Baptiste Rossi.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

The Internet Movie Database

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