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 Laurel Zuckerman (2024) | |
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Children | 2 |
Laurel Zuckerman (born 1960) is an American author based near Paris, France.
Laurel Zuckerman | |
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| Laurel Zuckerman (2024) | |
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Children | 2 |
Laurel Zuckerman (born 1960) is an American author based near Paris, France.
Zuckerman is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, but now lives in France. She graduated from the HEC School of Management, a French business school. [1] Until 2002, she worked in information technology. When the dot.com bubble burst, she decided to become an English teacher.
She first became widely known after publication of her controversial French novel Sorbonne Confidential (Fayard, 2007), a fictionalized account (with a strong autobiographical basis) of an American trying to obtain the agrégation (a competitive recruitment examination of the French Civil Service) in order to become an English teacher in the French public education system. The book is harshly critical of the French system and has generated considerable debate. The English version of the novel was published in 2009. [2]
Her most recent novel is Professor Collie's Barbarian Dreams (Fayard, 2009), a humorous story about a historian so obsessed with the past that he forgets he lives in the present. [3]
In 2016, after more than a decade of research, Zuckerman filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the return to the heirs of Paul and Alice Leffmann of an early Picasso masterpiece called "The Actor". [4] The Leffmanns, a German Jewish family, had fled Nazi Germany after being dispossessed of their home and factory. They sold the painting in 1938 to finance their escape to Brazil. The judge ruled that the family had waited too long to file the case, and a petition to the Supreme Court was unsuccessful. [5] [6] [7]
Married, with two children, Zuckerman lives in Bry-sur-Marne, France, and is a former member of the local city council. She is also the editor of Paris Writers News. [8]
Annie Cohen-Solal is a writer, historian, cultural diplomat and public intellectual in a trajectory that spans more than four decades. Born in Algiers, in a Jewish family from multiple Mediterranean origins, she faced numerous geographical displacements and devoted her entire career to issues of migration and creation. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. An award-winning writer from Sartre: 1905-1980 to Leo & His Circle: the Life of Leo Castelli and A Foreigner Called Picasso, her books, exhibitions, and lectures have been widely covered both by academic reviews and by the press at large. Annie Cohen-Solal brings to life a surging global ebb and flow of cultural energies, driven by innumerable fascinating individuals– painters, collectors, critics– who initiated enormous cultural changes in history.
Jean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.
Viviane Forrester was an essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic.
Françoise Gaime Gilot was a French painter. Gilot was an accomplished artist, notably in watercolors and ceramics, and a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso.
Paul Rosenberg was a French art dealer. He represented Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse. Both Paul and his brother Léonce Rosenberg were among the world's major dealers of modern art.
Marek Halter is a Polish-born French writer, artist, and human rights activist, who is best known for his historical novels, which have been translated into many languages. He also directed a film, The Righteous, released in 1994.
Fayard is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
Jean Daniel Bensaid was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly now known as L'Obs.
Jeune garçon au cheval is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was painted in Picasso's Rose Period from 1905 to 1906, when he was still a struggling artist living in Paris. The painting is a study for a much larger composition that Picasso never completed.
The Actor is an oil-on-canvas painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, created from 1904 to 1905. The painting dates from the artist's Rose Period. It is housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Stephen Hahn was an American art dealer and collector. An expert on Picasso, Degas, and others, he held one of the most significant collections of twentieth century masters during his years operating the Stephen Hahn Gallery in New York City.
Odile Benyahia-Kouider is a journalist and author. Currently she is one of the main contributors of the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur.
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was a German art dealer and collector who was an important figure in the development and dissemination of modern art in Europe.
Catherine Gradwohl, better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.
Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist.
Simon Liberati is a French writer and journalist. For his novels, he has received the Prix de Flore (2009), Prix Femina (2011) and Prix Renaudot (2022).
France Huser is a French novelist and art critic who lives and works in Paris.
Kenizé Hussain de Kotwara, generally known as Kenizé Mourad, is a French journalist and novelist. Until 1983, she was a reporter for the Nouvel Observateur working in the Middle East. She then turned to literature, publishing the international best-seller De la part de la princesse morte in 1987 which told the story of her family. Les jardins de Badalpour, further documenting her family history, followed in 1998.
Le Moulin de la Galette is an oil painting on canvas created in 1900 by Pablo Picasso, and currently owned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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