Eric Schmitts biography

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt was born in a year, in childhood he was engaged in music with great enthusiasm, playing the piano. He intended to become a composer, but left this venture, entering the college, where the teachers noticed and encouraged his literary talent. And yet, in parallel with college classes, he continued to attend music lessons at the Lyon Conservatory.

In the year, Schmitt entered Ekol Normal Sumer at the Faculty of Philosophy. Then, for several years, he taught philosophy at the Lyceum of Sherbur and at the University of Shamberi.

The first plays brought the spectator sympathies and recognition of critics: “Night in the Ground” - modern variations about the fate of Don Juan, with great success staged by the Royal Shakespearean Theater in the year; Then the play “Visitor” by Le Visiteur was staged, which takes place in the Sigmund Freud office during the Second World War and represents Freud's conversation with an unknown.

This work brought the author of three Moliere Awards in the year, including in the nominations “For the Best Stage of the Year” and “Opening of the Year”. The success of the play “Visitor” was a decisive event in Schmitt's career. Since then, performances on his works have not come off the scenes of many theaters around the world. The versatility of the writer's talent is revealed not only in dramaturgy, but in prose.

The author receives the literary prize "For the first novel" Prix du Premier Roman. The storyteller’s skill and unusual storylines captivate readers. In the year, Schmitt met with Pierre Jourdan the director and director, and he suggested that he make a new French version of the Libretto of the opera Mozart “The Marriage of Figaro”. It took Schmitt for two years to complete this work.

A year later, Schmitt writes the play “The Louner” Le Libertain, a kind of philosophical comedy about Didro. After an unusually successful production at the Montparnassa Theater, she liked the film director Gabriel Aliion, and was filmed in the year. In St. Petersburg, the play successfully goes to the Buff Theater. In the year, director Vladislav Pazi put “Frederick” at the Academic State Theater.

The Lensovet Second Roman Schmitt “The Gospel of Pilate” becomes a literary event of the fall of the year. For the novel, the author was marked by the Grand Prix of Elle Grand Prix Des Lectrices de Elle, which indicates its extreme popularity among a wide range of readers. For eight years, work continued on this historical novel with a mystical and almost detective plot of the investigation undertaken by the prosecutor of Judea in order to find the missing body of the crucified Christ.

History and religion are intertwined in Schmitt’s novels, creating a unique stylistic drawing and easily transferring the reader to other eras. The hero, a ten -year -old boy, a sick leukemia, writes to the Lord God, with lovely humor and spontaneity, telling about the funny and sad incidents of hospital life. Behind this simple story lies the high philosophy of being, suffering and death.

Another performance is “Ibrahim Monsieur and the flowers of the Qur'an”, created by Bruno Cremerer won world success, and recently this story was filmed by Francois Dupeiron. Omar Sharif for the main role in this film received the Sezar Award in the nomination "Best Actor" in the year. Schmitt continues to work in the cinema - with Katrin Deneuve on the adaptation of “dangerous ties”, with Gerard Depardieu over the role of Volpon in the film “The Torment Fox”.

In the Russian translation, the performance is on the stage of the St. Petersburg Theater "Russian Entreprise named after Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt lives and works in Brussels, and since the year has, in addition to French, Belgian citizenship also has. Detailed biography.