Boris Schreiber

Boris Schreiber (May 29, 1923 Berlin - February 11, 2008 Neuilly) was a French writer. His autobiography Un silence d'environ une demi-heure, won the Prix Renaudot in 1996.[1]

Life

Born into a Jewish family of Russian exile after the Russian Revolution, he spent a precarious childhood in Belgium and France, where his parents lived. He studied at the Ecole Alsace in Paris in 1936. He occasionally taught French for a living, while devoting himself to writing.

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