Born: 7-Mar-1936
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 3-Mar-1982
Location of death: Ivry, France
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Remains: Buried, Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: France
Executive summary: La Vie: mode d'emploi

Military service: French Army (1958-59)

Father: Icek Judko Peretz (d. 1940 shrapnel)
Mother: Cyrla Schulewicz (d. Auschwitz)
Wife: Paulette Petras (m. 1960)

    University: Sorbonne
    Scholar: Writer-in-Residence, University of Queensland (1981)

    Prix Médicis 1978 for La vie mode d'emploi
    Risk Factors: Former Smoker

Author of books:
Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante (1965, novel)
Un Homme qui dort (1967, novel)
La Disparition (1969, novel)
W; ou, le souvenir d'enfance (1975, semi-autobiographical novel)
La Vie: mode d'emploi (1978, novel)
Je me souviens (1978)
Penser/Classer (1985, essays, posthumous)
3 Jours (1989, novel, posthumous)

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