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Joseph Bialot

ジョゼフ・ビアロ

Josefu Biaro

Aliases: Joseph Bialobroda

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1923-08-10 (Warsaw)
Died
2012-11-25 (Paris 15th arrondissement) age 89
Nationality
French, Polish
Languages
French
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Paris Belleville district → Bordeaux → Pau → Lyon region → Grenoble → Roanne → Paris

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Crime fiction writer
Active Years
1977-2012

Education

Université Paris-VIII
Psychology / Psychology
Degree: Licence
Period: 1969
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: France
Obtained psychology license
Institut commercial de Grenoble
Commerce
Period: 1940年代
Country: France
Student during wartime

Awards

Grand prix de littérature policière
1979
Work: Le Salon du prêt-à-saigner
Result: 受賞
Prix Mystère de la critique
1990
Work: Un violon pour Mozart
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le Salon du prêt-à-saigner

1977 Crime novel

Black humor crime novel set in Paris garment district.

ParisBlack humorWorking class

Babel-ville

1979 Crime novel

Crime story in multicultural Belleville district.

ImmigrationParis

C'est en hiver que les jours rallongent

2002 Memoir/Testimony

Testimony of concentration camp experience.

HolocaustSurvivor

À la vie !

2010 Historical novel

Saga of a Belleville printing family from 1871 to 1948.

Historical eventsFamilyLabor struggles

Bibliography

  • Le Salon du prêt-à-saigner
  • Babel-ville
  • C'est en hiver que les jours rallongent
  • À la vie !
  • Belleville Blues
  • 186 marches vers les nuages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Black humorRealismTender narration
Recurring Motifs
Paris streetsWorking classHolocaust traumaHistorical events

Health

  • Concentration camp trauma
    1944-1945以降
    Took over 25 years and psychoanalysis to write about it

Legacy

French writer and Holocaust survivor known for humorous crime novels and historical sagas.

Quotes

  • It took me more than twenty-five years and a psychoanalysis to get out of the camp.
    Source: Interview (2012)

Trivia

  • Debuted first novel at age 55
  • Holocaust survivor deported on Convoi No. 78 to Auschwitz
  • Pedestrian of Paris, making the city the heroine of his novels