Gabriel Matzneff was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Academie francaise in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.
13 Facts About Gabriel Matzneff
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Gabriel Matzneff's mother was Jewish, while his father was Russian Orthodox.
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Gabriel Matzneff's family raised him in a refined cultural environment, rubbing shoulders with such famous Russian figures as Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev.
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Gabriel Matzneff spent a year attending the Gerson private Catholic school, two in Lycee Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, then moved to a school in Tannenberg from between 1946 and 1952, and from 1952 attended Lycee Carnot.
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Gabriel Matzneff enrolled as a Russian speaker at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and began a career as a journalist.
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Gabriel Matzneff met fellow author Henry de Montherlant in June 1957 and remained his friend, in spite of quarrels, until de Montherlant's suicide in 1972.
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Gabriel Matzneff began to keep his diary on 1 August 1953 but did not publish it until 1976.
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Gabriel Matzneff married her on 8 January 1970 in London before divorcing on 3 March 1973.
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Gabriel Matzneff was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Academie francaise in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot for best essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.
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Gabriel Matzneff's scathing attack on the popular prime-time show caused a sensation and she was ferociously reviled.
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Gabriel Matzneff remained sheltered from any criminal prosecution for decades, and benefited from broad support within the French literary world.
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Gabriel Matzneff's book ignited controversy over the tolerance of the literary milieu towards an admitted paedophile.
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Gabriel Matzneff is the author of several novels with the same hero, Nil Kolytcheff.