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Jean-Claude Grumberg | |
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 Jean-Claude Grumberg (November 2013) | |
| Born | 1939 France |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable awards | 1999 Molière for best play |
| Children | Olga Grumberg |
Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French playwright and author of children's books.
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Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs, including working as a tailor. This work provided the setting for his best-known play,L'Atelier. He discovereddrama as an actor in a theatrical company. His career as a writer began in 1968 withDemain, une fenêtre sur rue, and short theatrical pieces suchRixe, which was staged at theComédie-Française. In several of his works, he has written about what has haunted him since childhood: the death of his father in theNazideath camps:Maman revient pauvre orphelin,Dreyfus (1974),L'Atelier (1979) andZone libre (1990).
In 1998,L'Atelier returned toThéâtre Hébertot in Paris, achieved great success, and won the 1999Molière for best play direction.
His screenplay credits include,Les Années Sandwiches, coauthor withFrançois Truffaut ofThe Last Metro,La Petite Apocalypse ofCosta-Gavras,Le Plus Beau Pays du monde byMarcel Bluwal (1999),Fait d'hiverRobert Enrico (1999). For television, he wrote the teleplays forThérèse Humbert,Music Hall, by Marcel Bluwal,Les Lendemains qui chantent, by Jacques Fansten etJulien l'apprenti, by Jacques Otmezguine.
He is one of the few living contemporary French playwrights whose work is studied in schools (includingL'Atelier). Jean-Claude Grumberg received the Grand Prize of theAcadémie française in 1991 andSACD Prize in 1999 for lifetime achievement; theMolière's best playwright in 1991 forZone libre and in 1999 forL'Atelier.
Jean-Claude Grumberg is also the father of the actressOlga Grumberg.
