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Roger Ikor

ロジェ・イコール

Rōje Ikōru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1912-05-28 (Paris)
Died
1986-11-17 (Unknown) age 74
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Paris → Neuilly-sur-Seine

Career

Occupations
Writer, Literature professor
Active Years
1940-1986
Affiliations
Lycée Condorcet, Lycée Pasteur

Education

Lycée Condorcet
Literature
Country: France
Student and professor
Lycée Pasteur
Literature
Country: France
Professor

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1955
Work: Les eaux mêlées
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les eaux mêlées

1955 Novel

Story of a Jewish family settled in France, bound by blood to a non-Jewish French family, spanning three generations.

Jewish familyAssimilationFrench society

The Spring Graft

Novel

Forms a diptych titled Sons of Avrom with Les eaux mêlées.

Jewish family

Legacy

Goncourt Prize winner in 1955. Founded the Centre contre les manipulations mentales (also known as Centre Roger-Ikor) in 1981 after his son's suicide in a Zen cult.

In Popular Culture

  • Founded anti-cult organization after son's suicide.

Trivia

  • Of Jewish ancestry.
  • Taken prisoner of war in June 1940 and sent to Pomerania.