Sébastien Japrisot
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Sébastien Japrisot (July 4, 1931 – March 4, 2003) is a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym is an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".
He is 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] Books
Women in Evidence
10:30 From Marseille
The Passion Of Women
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Goodbye, friend
The Sleeping Car Murders
Trap for Cinderella
[edit] Filmography
2004 Un long dimanche de fiançailles aka A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2001 Un crime au Paradis aka A Crime In Paradise (Screenwriter)
1999 Les enfants du marais aka Children of the Marshland (Screenwriter)
1987 Juillet en septembre aka July In September [1988] (Director / Screenwriter)
1983 One Deadly Summer aka L'été meurtrier (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
1975 Folle à tuer aka Mad Enough To Kill (Screenwriter)
1975 The Story of O aka Histoire d'O (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
1972 La course du lièvre à travers les champs aka And Hope to Die (U.S. title) (Screenwriter)
1970 Rider on the Rain aka Le Passager de la pluie (French title) aka Passenger of the Rain (Screenwriter)
1968 Honor Among Thieves aka Adieu l'ami (Original Foreign title) aka Farewell, Friend (UK title) aka So Long, Friend (Screenwriter)
1965 The Sleeping Car Murders aka Compartiment tueurs (Original Foreign title) (Screenwriter)
1965 Piège pour Cendrillon aka Trap for Cinderella (Screenwriter)
[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
Won Best Original Screenplay for One Deadly Summer at the 1983 French Academy of Cinema
[edit] Trivia
Sebastien Japrisot is an anagram of the author's real name Jean-Baptiste Rossi.
