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Alphonse Boudard (17 December 1925 – 14 January 2000) was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for ''Les Combattants du petit bonheur''.
Boudard's 1995 novel ''Dying childhood '' was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Biographie d'Alphonse Boudard
Les gens du cinéma
* André Nolat, ''Romances de la rue'' (« Notes sur Mac Orlan, Carco, Simonin, Boudard »), Lyon, éd. Baudelaire, septembre 2009
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Alphonse Boudard (17 December 1925 – 14 January 2000) was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for ''Les Combattants du petit bonheur''.
Boudard's 1995 novel ''Dying childhood '' was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Biography
Boudard was born in Paris, an illegitimate child. He was brought up first by an adoptive family in the Loiret region of the center of France, then by his grand mother in the south of Paris. Boudard had a late career. As a teenager he was living in a country occupied by the German Army. He was wounded fighting for the French and he was awarded a military medal. His early adult life was spent in casual work, periods in jail and in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis. He experimented with writing, but it was not until he was 33 that he decided to be a full-time writer. He credits the writer Albert Paraz with inspiring this move. His novels are characterised by the colloquial terms and slang that Boudard used to describe life in the 1940s. His works are autobiographical and he uses his periods in a sanatorium and in jail as a basis for his stories. His 1963 novel ''The Cherry'' and his 1972 story ''The Hospital'' are examples, as is his 1992 novel ''The amazing Mr Joseph'' which tells the story of a French spy who becomes a millionaire dealing on theblack market
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during World War II (based on the real career of Joseph Joanovici
Joseph Joanovici (also Ioinovici or Joinovici, 1905 –1965) was a French Jewish merchant of scrap metal who supplied both Nazi Germany and the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II.
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).
Many of Boudard novels were adapted for French films and television.
Boudard died in Nice on January 14, 2000.
External links
Biographie d'Alphonse Boudard
Les gens du cinéma
* André Nolat, ''Romances de la rue'' (« Notes sur Mac Orlan, Carco, Simonin, Boudard »), Lyon, éd. Baudelaire, septembre 2009
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