Serge Bramly
Serge Bramly (born 31 January 1949) is a French writer, essayist and art critic.
Serge Bramly
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- Name
- Serge Bramly
- Born
- 31 January 1949
- Birthplace
- Tunis, French Tunisia
- Occupation
- * Writer
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Carnot high school Tunis
- Honours
- Prix Interallié · prix des Libraires · Officer of Arts and Letters · Vasari award · Prix Biguet · Roland de Jouvenel Prize
- Languages
- French
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Serge Bramly (born 31 January 1949) is a French writer, essayist and art critic.
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• Name — Serge Bramly • Birth Name — Serge Bramly • Born — 31 January 1949 • Birthplace — Tunis, French Tunisia • Occupation — * Writer • poet • essayist • photographer
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He was born into a Jewish family in Tunis, Tunisia. When he was ten years old, his family emigrated to France. He went to school at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. His sister is Sophie Bramly, the Paris-based photographer and filmmaker. He was married to French photographer Bettina Rheims, with whom he has collaborated frequently, and had a son, Virgile. His novel La terreur dans le boudoir was adapted by Benoît Jacquot for the 2000 French film Sade. He is also noted for his books on Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa—Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1991 Leonardo: The Artist and the Man (1995), and Mona Lisa: The Enigma (2005). In 2008 he won the prix Interallié for his novel Le Premier Principe - Le Second Principe.
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Serge Bramly is recorded as having received Prix Interallié, prix des Libraires and Officer of Arts and Letters.
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1949
Serge Bramly born at Tunis.
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- 1.Interview mit Serge Bramly. www.dhm.de.
- 2.La Libre.be - Suivez en direct toute l'actualité belge et internationale, économique et culturelle. 6 October 2023.
- 3.Serge BRAMLY : "Je me suis lancé dans la biographie de Léonard de Vinci contre l'avis de tout le monde". France Inter. 2019-10-14.
- 4.Alison Flood, "French literary prize season ends with triumph for Serge Bramly", The Guardian, 19 November 2008.
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- Terre Wakan, Robert Laffont, essay 1974
- Macumba, forces noires du Brésil, essay. Seghers, 1975, Editions Albin Michel, 1981
- Rudolf Steiner: prophète de l'homme nouveau, Retz, 1976,
- L'Itinéraire du fou, Flammarion, 1978
- Un Piège à Lumière, Flammarion, 1979,
- Man Ray, essay. Pierre Belfond, 1980
- Le livre des dates, essay, Ramsay, 1981
- La Danse du loup, Belfond, 1982,
- Léonard de Vinci, éditions Lattès, 1988, ,
- Le Grand cheval de Léonard : le projet monumental de Léonard de Vinci, Adam Biro, 1990,
- Terre sacrée, Editions Albin Michel, 1992
- Madame Satan, Grasset, 1992,
- Walter Carone Photographe, Lattès, 1992,
- La Terreur dans le boudoir, Grasset, 1994, screen adaptation by Benoît Jacquot in 2001
- Le Réseau Melchior, Lattès, 1996,
- Anonym, Kehayoff, Munich, 1996, (in German, Forward translated by Marietta Piekenbrock)
- INRI, texte de Bramly, photographs by Bettina Rheims, éditions Monacelli Press, 2000,
- Ragots, Plon, 2001,
- Shanghai, Laffont, 2003, text by Bramly, photographs by Bettina Rheims,
- Le Premier Principe - Le Second Principe, éditions Lattès, 2008, Prix Interallié,
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His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jacqueline Raoul-Duval. He married Marine Bramly and Bettina Rheims. 2 children are recorded: Virgile Bramly and Carmen Bramly. Bramly received Prix Interallié, prix des Libraires, Officer of Arts and Letters, Vasari award, Prix Biguet and Roland de Jouvenel Prize.
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