Cast · Writer
Jorge Semprún
1923 – 2011
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1974–1977
- Schools and movements
- French New WaveDocumentary and Essay Film
Directors worked with
Biography
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and the change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991.
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Awards and honours
International
- Edgar Awards 1970
- Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III 1993
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association 1994
- Jerusalem Prize 1997
- Goethe Medal 2003
- prix Nessim Habif 2005
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2006
- honorary doctor of the University of Potsdam
National / local
- Concours général 1941
- Prix Formentor 1963
- Prix Femina 1969
- Premio Planeta de Novela 1977
- honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II 1989
- honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II 1991
- Femina Vacaresco award 1994
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1995
- Louis Guilloux Prize 1995
- Saint George's Cross 1995
- honorary doctor of the University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée 2000
- Jean Monnet Prize 2001
- honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 2007
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts 2008
2 films on this site
- Stavisky 1974 · Alain Resnais · IMDb 6.5 · Writer
- A Grin Without a Cat 1977 · Chris Marker · IMDb 7.8 · Cast