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Oscar-winning
‘The Tin Drum’ screenwriter Carriere dies at 89
French novelist and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, best known for his work with Luis Bunuel and Milos Forman, died late Monday at the age of 89, his daughter told AFP.
Carriere died "in his sleep" at his home in Paris, said Kiara Carriere.
A tribute will be held for him in Paris and he should be buried in his native village in Colombieres-sur-Orb, in southern France, she added.
A prolific writer who penned dozens of scripts in a career spanning six decades, Carriere created a range of memorable and provocative scenes, including tying a fresh-faced Catherine Deneuve naked to a tree.
Belle de Jour was one of the fruits of his 19-year collaboration with subversive Spanish enfant terrible Luis Bunuel, famous for shocking audiences.
Carriere and Bunuel enjoyed Oscar success in 1972 with Best Foreign Film for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise adding to Carriere's Best Short Film Oscar in 1963.
His work ranged across cultures, religions and historical periods, from Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) to the adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which was Oscar-nomiated.
Carriere's 1979 adaption of Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schloendorff, won another Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
In 1983 he also won a Cesar for best original screenplay for The Return of Martin Guerre, starring Depardieu.
In 2014, Carriere was awarded an honorary Oscar for his oeuvre-totaling around 80 works, the majority screenplays but also essays, fiction, translations and interviews.
Born on September 17, 1931 into a family of winegrowers, his parents moved near Paris in 1945 to open a cafe.
A star pupil, Carriere went on to study at one of France's elite Grandes Ecoles. By 26, he had written his first novel.
He said he enjoyed being at the service of a director and slipping into their way of thinking. "I have no ego," he once said."Meetings, friendships and life teachers" marked his life, such as the great surrealist Bunuel.
One key encounter was with acclaimed British director Peter Brook with whom he adapted the Sanskrit Hindu epic the Mahabharata for the stage and screen.
"Watching it, forgetting I was the one who wrote it, was one of the great joys in my life," Carriere said.
Carriere died "in his sleep" at his home in Paris, said Kiara Carriere.
A tribute will be held for him in Paris and he should be buried in his native village in Colombieres-sur-Orb, in southern France, she added.
A prolific writer who penned dozens of scripts in a career spanning six decades, Carriere created a range of memorable and provocative scenes, including tying a fresh-faced Catherine Deneuve naked to a tree.
Belle de Jour was one of the fruits of his 19-year collaboration with subversive Spanish enfant terrible Luis Bunuel, famous for shocking audiences.
Carriere and Bunuel enjoyed Oscar success in 1972 with Best Foreign Film for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise adding to Carriere's Best Short Film Oscar in 1963.
His work ranged across cultures, religions and historical periods, from Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) to the adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which was Oscar-nomiated.
Carriere's 1979 adaption of Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schloendorff, won another Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
In 1983 he also won a Cesar for best original screenplay for The Return of Martin Guerre, starring Depardieu.
In 2014, Carriere was awarded an honorary Oscar for his oeuvre-totaling around 80 works, the majority screenplays but also essays, fiction, translations and interviews.
Born on September 17, 1931 into a family of winegrowers, his parents moved near Paris in 1945 to open a cafe.
A star pupil, Carriere went on to study at one of France's elite Grandes Ecoles. By 26, he had written his first novel.
He said he enjoyed being at the service of a director and slipping into their way of thinking. "I have no ego," he once said."Meetings, friendships and life teachers" marked his life, such as the great surrealist Bunuel.
One key encounter was with acclaimed British director Peter Brook with whom he adapted the Sanskrit Hindu epic the Mahabharata for the stage and screen.
"Watching it, forgetting I was the one who wrote it, was one of the great joys in my life," Carriere said.
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