Roger Ikor
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Roger Ikor was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

 in 1955. He was born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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Life

Of Jewish origin, he was a student and professor of literature at the Lycee Condorcet
Lycée Condorcet
The Lycée Condorcet is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's IXe arrondissement. Since its inception, various political eras have seen it given a number of different names, but its identity today honors the memory of the Marquis de Condorcet. The...

 and the Lycée Pasteur
Lycée Pasteur
The Lycée Pasteur is a French state-run secondary school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris. It accept students from collège through to classes préparatoires .Built in the grounds of the former chateau de Neuilly, the lycée is named in...

 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.Although Neuilly is technically a suburb of Paris, it is immediately adjacent to the city and directly extends it. The area is composed of mostly wealthy, select residential...

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In June 1940, he was taken prisoner of war, and was sent to Pomerania.

After the death of his son, who committed suicide after joining the Zen macrobiotic cult, he led until his death a struggle against the cult phenomenon, and the center against mind control (CSCM).

Through a style inspired and powerful, his stories usually epic, sometimes telling the workers' uprising of June 1848 (1936), and the history of Saint-Just (1937), or in the mass media, an epic Israelite.

The mixed waters (1955), which won the Goncourt Prize the same year, and which forms with the The Spring Graft, a diptych titled Sons of Avrom, and tells the story of a Jewish family that settled in France, and was bound by blood to a non-Jewish French family. Spanning three generations, the story describes the relationship that the family will with their new homeland.

Works

  • L'insurrection ouvrière de juin 1848 ou la première Commune - 1936
  • Saint-Just - 1937
  • A travers nos déserts - 1951
  • Les Grands Moyens - 1952
  • La greffe de printemps - 1955
  • Les Eaux mêlées - Prix Goncourt 1955
  • Mise au net (Pour une révolution de la discrétion) - 1957
  • Ciel ouvert - 1959
  • Le semeur de vent - 1960
  • Les murmures de la guerre. novel. Editions Albin Michel. 1961
  • La pluie sur la mer - 1962
  • La ceinture de ciel - 1964
  • Gloucq ou la toison d'Or - 1965
  • Les Poulains - 1966
  • le tourniquet des innocents - 1972, Éditions Albin Michel
  • Je porte plainte-[1981, Editions Albin Michel]
  • Les sectes - Un mal de civilisation - 1983, Éditions Albin Michel
  • O soldats de quarante !... - 1986, Éditions Albin Michel

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