Alphonse Boudard
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.
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 the black market during World War II (based on the real career of Joseph Joanovici).
Many of Boudard novels were adapted for French films and television.
Boudard died in Nice on January 14, 2000.
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Alphonse Boudard Movies
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Le Chêne d'Allouville (1981)
Le Chêne d'Allouville
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IMDb: 5.6
1981
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The...
Release : 1981.03.18
Popularity : 1.746
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D'un Céline l'autre (1969)
D'un Céline l'autre
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IMDb: 7
1969
Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them...
Release : 1969.05.08
Popularity : 0.342
Alphonse Boudard TV Shows
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Apostrophes (1975)
Apostrophes
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IMDb: 8.5
1975
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...
Release : 1975.01.10
Popularity : 47.673
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Apostrophes (1970)
Apostrophes
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IMDb: 5
1970
Written by Alphonse Boudard, Le Mythomane had its origins in an episode of the 1979 series Histoires de voyous directed by Michel Wyn. The TV series...
Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 2.108