Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.

Career

Levy was born in

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, and studied management and computers at

Paris Dauphine University Paris Dauphine University - PSL (french: Université Paris-Dauphine, also known as Paris Dauphine - PSL or Dauphine - PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 universities formed by the division of the ancie ...

. In the late 1990s, Levy wrote a story that his sister, then a screenwriter, encouraged him to send to Editions Robert Laffont, who immediately decided to publish '' If Only It Were True''. Before it was published,

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(

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) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, '' Just like Heaven'', produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring

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and

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, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005. After ''If Only It Were True'', Marc Levy began writing full-time. Levy was first married at the age of 26; he had a son, the inspiration for ''If Only It Were True''. He is married and lives in New York City.An Interview with Marc Levy, France’s Widest Read Author
Anne McCarthy, July 7, 2017 ''www.francetoday.com'', accessed 25 February 2021

Bibliography

* '' If Only It Were True'', 2000 (adapted for film in 2005) * ''Finding You'', 2001 (adapted for television in 2007) * ''Seven Days for an Eternity'', 2003 * ''In Another Life'', 2004 * '' Vous revoir'', 2005 (the sequel to ''If Only It Were True)'' * ''London Mon Amour'', 2006 (adapted for film in 2008) * ''Children of Freedom'', 2007 * ''All Those Things We Never Said'', 2008. * ''The First Day'', 2009 * ''The First Night'', 2009 (the sequel to ''The First Day'') * ''The Shadow Thief'', 2010 * ''The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry'', 2011 * ''Replay'', 2012 * ''Stronger than Fear'', 2013 * ''Another Idea of Happiness'', 2014 * ''P.S. from Paris'', AmazonCrossing, 2015, trans. Sam Taylor * ''The Last of the Stanfields'', AmazonCrossing, 2019, trans. Daniel Wasserman * ''A Woman Like Her'', AmazonCrossing, 2020, trans
Kate Deimling
* ''Hope'', AmazonCrossing, 2021, trans. Hannah Dickens-Doyle

Filmography

* ''La tortue sur le dos'' (1978) - Gus, le voyageur * ''L'amour dure trois ans'' (2011) - Himself Short film * ''La Lettre de Nabila'' directed for

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, adapted from a short story he co-wrote with Sophie Fontanel.La Lettre de Nabila Un Court-métrage de Marc Lévy, 2004
''www.unifrance.org'', accessed 27 February 2021

References

External links

Site officiel

The story behind Replay – Online Essay by Marc Levy
at Upcoming4.me {{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Marc 1961 births Living people People from Boulogne-Billancourt 21st-century French novelists Paris Dauphine University alumni French male novelists French psychological fiction writers 21st-century French male writers