{{Short description|French writer, filmmaker and film critic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Jean Vautrin | birth_name = Jean Herman | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1933|5|17}} | birth_place = Pagny-sur-Moselle, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|6|16|1933|5|17}} | death_place = Gradignan, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2015/06/16/mort-du-romancier-et-scenariste-jean-vautrin_4655515_3382.html |title=Mort du romancier et scénariste Jean Vautrin |date=16 June 2015|work=Le Monde}}</ref> | occupation = Writer, film director/critic | years_active = 1958–2015 }}
'''Jean Vautrin''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ votʁɛ̃}}; 17 May 1933 – 16 June 2015), real name '''Jean Herman''', was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www4.fnac.com/Jean-Vautrin/ia2849 |title=Jean Vautrin : biographie et tous les livres |publisher=Fnac.com |date= |accessdate=2015-08-10}}</ref>
==Life and career== After studying literature at Auxerre, he took first place in the Id'HEC competition. He studied French literature at the University of Bombay; he became assistant director to Roberto Rossellini. Back in France, he produced five feature films.<ref>[http://livres.fluctuat.net/jean-vautrin.html Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625221541/http://livres.fluctuat.net/jean-vautrin.html |date=2010-06-25 }}, livres.fluctuat.net; accessed 7 August 2015.</ref>
He became famous among the general public in 1989, winning the Prix Goncourt for his novel ''Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu''.<ref>[http://www.livredepoche.com/auteurs/livre-de-poche-biographie-bibliographie-000000000736-jean-vautrin-ecrivain.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012112935/http://www.livredepoche.com/auteurs/livre-de-poche-biographie-bibliographie-000000000736-jean-vautrin-ecrivain.html |date=October 12, 2008 }}</ref>
His novel ''Le Cri du Peuple'' was adapted as a graphic novel by Jacques Tardi.
==Filmography==
===Assistant director=== * ''India, Terre Mère'' * ''Paris nous appartient'' * ''Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse'' * ''Le Jour le plus long''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/311491/Jean-Vautrin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102111643/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/311491/Jean-Vautrin |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-02 |title=Jean Vautrin - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |accessdate=2015-08-10}}</ref>
===Director=== * 1958 ''Voyage en Boscavie'' (co-directed by Claude Choublier) (short) * 1960 ''Actua-Tilt'' (short) * 1961 ''La Quille'' (short) * 1962 ''Twist Parade'' (short) * 1962 ''Le Chemin de la mauvaise route'' (short) * 1963 ''Les Fusils'' (short) * 1964 ''La Cinémathèque Française'' (short) * 1967 ''Le Dimanche de la vie'' * 1968 ''Adieu l'ami'' * 1969 ''Jeff'' * 1969 ''Decameron 69'' (co-directed by Bernard Clarens, Jean Desvilles, Louis Grospierre, Miklós Jancsó, Serge Korber and François Reichenbach) * 1971 ''Popsy Pop'' * 1972 ''L'Œuf'' * 1974 ''Graf Yoster'', 2 episodes : ''Der Papageienkäfig'' and ''Das Spiel mit dem Tode'' (TV series) * 1975 ''Les Grands Détectives'', 2 episodes : ''Un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres'' and ''Monsieur Lecoq'' (TV series) * 1975 ''Les Peupliers de la Prétentaine'' (TV series)
===Screenwriter=== * 1958 ''Voyage en Boscavie'' directed by Jean Herman and Claude Choublier (short) * 1960 ''Actua-Tilt'' directed by Jean Herman (short) * 1961 ''La Quille'' directed by Jean Herman (short) * 1962 ''Twist Parade'' directed by Jean Herman (short) * 1962 ''Le Chemin de la mauvaise route'' directed by Jean Herman (short) * 1964 ''La Cinémathèque Française'' directed by Jean Herman (short) * 1968 ''Adieu l'ami'' directed by Jean Herman * 1971 ''Popsy Pop'' directed by Jean Herman * 1972 ''L'Œuf'' directed by Jean Herman * 1976 ''Le Grand Escogriffe'' directed by Claude Pinoteau * 1977 ''Banlieue sud-est'' directed by Gilles Grangier (TV series) * 1979 ''Histoires insolites'' (1 episode Le locataire d'en haut directed by Gilles Grangier) (TV series) * 1979 ''Les Insulaires'' directed by Gilles Grangier (TV movie) * 1979 ''Miss'' directed by Roger Pigaut (TV series) * 1979 ''Flic ou Voyou'' directed by Georges Lautner * 1980 ''Le Guignolo'' directed by Georges Lautner * 1980 ''L'Entourloupe'' directed by Gérard Pirès * 1980 ''Jean-Sans-Terre'' directed by Gilles Grangier (TV movie) * 1981 ''Garde à vue'' directed by Claude Miller * 1983 ''Le Marginal'' directed by Jacques Deray * 1984 ''Rue barbare'' directed by Gilles Béhat * 1984 ''Canicule'' directed by Yves Boisset * 1985 ''Intrigues'' directed by Maurice Dugowson (TV series) * 1985 ''Urgence'' directed by Gilles Béhat * 1986 ''Bleu comme l'enfer'' directed by Yves Boisset * 1987 ''Charlie Dingo'' directed by Gilles Béhat * 1991 ''Berlin Lady'' directed by Pierre Boutron (TV series) * 2000 ''Under Suspicion'' directed by Stephen Hopkins * 2012 ''L'Été des Lip'' directed by Dominique Ladoge (TV)
===Actor=== * 1983 : ''Le Marginal'', directed by Jacques Deray * 1985 : ''Billy Ze Kick'', directed by Gérard Mordillat * 1986 : ''Série Noire'', (episode La nuit du flingueur directed by Pierre Grimblat) (TV series)
==Novels== * ''À bulletins rouges'', 1973 * ''Billy-Ze-Kick'', 1974 - Novel adapted by Gérard Mordillat 1985 * ''Mister Love'', 1977 * ''Typhon gazoline'', 1977 * ''Le Mensonge - Chronique des années de crise'', 1978 * ''Bloody-Mary'', 1979 * ''Groom'', 1981 * ''Canicule'', 1982 - Novel adapted by Yves Boisset 1984 * ''La Vie Ripolin'', 1987 * ''Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu'', 1989 Prix Goncourt * ''Symphonie Grabuge'', 1994 Prix du roman populiste * ''Le Roi des ordures'', 1997 * ''Un monsieur bien mis'', 1987 * ''Le Cri du peuple'', 1998 Prix Louis-Guilloux in 1999. Adapted as a graphic novel in four books by Jacques Tardi in 2005. * ''L’homme qui assassinait sa vie'', 2001 * ''Le Journal de Louise B.'', 2002
===Four French Soldiers === * ''Adieu la vie, adieu l’amour'', 2004 [vol 1] * ''La Femme au gant rouge'', 2004 [vol 2] * ''La grande zigouille'', 2009 [vol 3] * ''Les années Faribole'', 2012 [vol 4]
===Novellas=== * 1983 : Patchwork, Prix des Deux Magots 1984 * 1986 : Baby-boom, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle 1986 * 1989 : Dix-huit tentatives pour devenir un saint * 1992 : Courage chacun * 2005 : Si on s’aimait ? * 2009 : Maîtresse Kristal et autres bris de guerre
===Collaboration=== '''''Les Aventures de Boro, reporter photographe'', with Dan Franck''' * ''La Dame de Berlin'', 1987 - Novel adapted by Pierre Boutron 1991 * ''Le Temps des cerises'', 1990 * ''Les Noces de Guernica'', 1994 * ''Mademoiselle Chat'', 1996 * ''Boro s’en va-t-en guerre'', 2000 * ''Cher Boro'', 2005 * ''La Fête à Boro'', 2007 * ''La Dame de Jérusalem'', 2009
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0379150}}
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