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Roger Ikor (28 May 1912 – 1986) was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1955. He was born in Paris.
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Of Jewish origin,[1] he was a student and professor of literature at the Lycee Condorcet and the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In June 1940, he was taken prisoner of war, and was sent to Pomerania.
After the death of his son, who committed suicide after joining the Zen macrobiotic cult, he led until his death a struggle against the cult phenomenon, and the center against mind control (CSCM).
Through a style inspired and powerful, his stories usually epic, sometimes telling the workers' uprising of June 1848 (1936), and the history of Saint-Just (1937), or in the mass media, an epic Israelite.
The mixed waters (1955), which won the Goncourt Prize the same year, and which forms with the The Spring Graft, a diptych titled Sons of Avrom, and tells the story of a Jewish family that settled in France, and was bound by blood to a non-Jewish French family. Spanning three generations, the story describes the relationship that the family will with their new homeland.