Editing Romain Gary (section)

===Literary work===
[[File:Place Romain-Gary, Paris 15.jpg|thumb|Place Romain-Gary, located in Paris' [[15th arrondissement of Paris|15th arrondissement]]]]

Gary became one of France's most popular and prolific writers, writing more than 30 novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under a pseudonym.

He is the only person to win the [[Prix Goncourt]] twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for ''[[Les racines du ciel]]'', published ''[[La vie devant soi]]'' under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975. The [[Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt|Académie Goncourt]] awarded the prize to the author of that book without knowing his identity. Gary's cousin's son [[Paul Pavlowitch]] posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book ''Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar''.<ref>Gary, Romain, ''Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar'', Gallimard – NRF (17 juillet 1981), 42p, {{ISBN|978-2-07-026351-6}}.</ref> Gary also published as Shatan Bogat, René Deville and Fosco Sinibaldi, as well under his birth name Roman Kacew.<ref>{{cite book | first=Anna | last=Lushenkova | chapter=La réinvention de l'homme par l'art et le rire: 'Les Enchanteurs' de Romain Gary | title=Écrivains franco-russes | volume=318 | series=Faux titre | editor1-first=Murielle Lucie | editor1-last=Clément | publisher=Rodopi | year=2008 | isbn=978-90-420-2426-7 | pages=141–163 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Les grandes impostures littéraires: canulars, escroqueries, supercheries, et autres mystifications | first=Philippe | last=Di Folco | publisher=Écriture | year=2006 | isbn=2-909240-70-3 | pages=111–113 }}</ref>

In addition to his success as a novelist, he wrote the screenplay for the motion picture ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' and co-wrote and directed the film [[Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!]] (1971),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Romain Gary |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308900/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> which starred his wife at the time, [[Jean Seberg]]. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the [[29th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1979/04_jury_1979/04_Jury_1979.html |title=Berlinale 1979: Juries |access-date=8 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref>