Gérard Jarlot


Gérard Jarlot was a French journalist, screenwriter and novelist, winner of the Prix Médicis in 1963.
Jarlot met Marguerite Duras in 1957. She dedicated the novel Moderato cantabile to him. With her, he adapted the book and wrote the dialogues for Seven Days... Seven Nights directed by Peter Brook in 1959.
In 1960, he signed the Manifesto of the 121 entitled "Declaration on the Right to draft evasion in the Algerian War".

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