Maurice Dekobra

Maurice Dekobra

Maurice Dekobra (26 May 1885, Paris – 1 June 1973, Paris) was a French writer. His real name was Ernest-Maurice Tessier. Viewed as a subversive writer in the 1920s and 1930s, he became one of the best-known French writers between the First and the Second World Wars. His books have been translated into 77 languages, and he has been described as an early example of an international best-seller writer. This is particularly true of his best known work, La Madone des Sleepings (1925). In spite of this, and the publication of a biography by Philippe Collas in 2001, he was declared a "total unknown" in 2005, though the republication of La Madone des Sleepings by the publisher Zulma in 2006 has increased awareness of him, at least in France. At the age of 19, he started his career as a trilingual journalist – French, English, German. During the 1914–18 War he was attached as liaison officer/interpreter first to the Indian army, and later to the United States army. The contacts he made at this time ignited his passion for travel. He attributed the origin of his pen name to an episode in North Africa when he saw a snake charmer with two cobras. Allegedly he began thinking of the "deux cobras", which led him to De-kobra, then Dekobra. The term 'dekobrisme' was coined from his fiction, which used journalistic features in his novels. He chose to live in the United States from 1939 to 1946. Upon returning to France, he started writing whodunits. One of these, Opération Magali (1951) won the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres. Some of his novels were made into films. Source: Article "Maurice Dekobra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Título: Maurice Dekobra
  • Popularidad: 1.639
  • Conocido por: Writing
  • Cumpleaños: 1885-05-26
  • Lugar de nacimiento: Paris, France
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  • También conocido como: Ernest-Maurice Tessier
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Maurice Dekobra Películas

  • 1951
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    Hell Is Sold Out

    Hell Is Sold Out

    5.667 1951 HD

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  • 1942
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    Macao, l'enfer du jeu

    Macao, l'enfer du jeu

    6.4 1942 HD

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  • 1927
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    La sirena de los trópicos

    La sirena de los trópicos

    5.7 1927 HD

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  • 1965
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    Passeport diplomatique agent K 8

    Passeport diplomatique agent K 8

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Passeport diplomatique agent K 8

    Passeport diplomatique agent K 8

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1931
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    Friends and Lovers

    Friends and Lovers

    5 1931 HD

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  • 1930
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    Moral um Mitternacht

    Moral um Mitternacht

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1954
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    La rafle est pour ce soir

    La rafle est pour ce soir

    7.5 1954 HD

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  • 1939
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    Quartier Latin

    Quartier Latin

    3 1939 HD

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  • 1955
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    La madone des sleepings

    La madone des sleepings

    3 1955 HD

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  • 1937
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    Yoshiwara

    Yoshiwara

    8 1937 HD

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  • 1956
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    Soupçons

    Soupçons

    9 1956 HD

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  • 1954
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    La rafle est pour ce soir

    La rafle est pour ce soir

    7.5 1954 HD

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  • 1929
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    Quartier latin

    Quartier latin

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1929
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    Quartier latin

    Quartier latin

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1928
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    Fürst oder Clown

    Fürst oder Clown

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1927
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    Liebe geht seltsame Wege

    Liebe geht seltsame Wege

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    La Madone des sleepings

    La Madone des sleepings

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1956
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    Soupçons

    Soupçons

    9 1956 HD

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  • 1928
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    Mon coeur au ralenti

    Mon coeur au ralenti

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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