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Jean-Claude Grumberg
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Jean-Claude Grumberg

List of works mentioned in Actes du Théâtre :
Adam et Ève
Amorphe d’Ottenburg
L’Atelier
L’Enfant do
Moi, je crois pas !
Pinok et Barbie
Rêver peut-être
Vers toi Terre Promise - Tragédie dentaire
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Jean-Claude Grumberg was born in 1939 in Paris. He has written twenty plays including: Demain une fenêtre sur rue (1968), Chez Pierrot (1968), Amorphe d’Ottenburg (1971; AdT 10), Dreyfus (1973), En r’venant d’l’expo (1975), L’Atelier (1979; AdT 8), L’Indien sous Babylone (1983), Les Autres (1985), Zone libre (1990), Linge sale (1992), Adam et Ève (1997; AdT 6), Rêver peut-être (1998; AdT 9), Les Courtes, one-act plays (1995), L’Enfant do (2002; AdT 16).
Today, he happily writes “plays for children that grown-ups like to see and read too”, such as Le Petit Violon (1995), Marie des grenouilles (2003), Iq et Ox (2003), and Le Petit Chaperon Uf (2004), Mange ta main (2004). Pinok et Barbie was awarded the Youth Theatre Prize in 2005.
His plays have been awarded numerous prizes and translated throughout the world. They have all been published by Actes Sud-Papiers.
His novels include La nuit tous les chats sont gris (éd. Actes Sud; 2000) and Mon père. Inventaire and Une leçon de savoir-vivre (éd. du Seuil; 2003).
Jean-Claude Grumberg was awarded a César for Best Screenplay for Amen, co-written with Costa Gavras in 2003, with whom he also wrote the script for Le Couperet (2005).
He also wrote the screenplay for 93, rue Lauriston, a film made for television by Denys Granier-Deferre in 2004.