Jean-Marie Apostolidès
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Jean-Marie Apostolidès
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27 November 1943 Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist, playwright, theater director, professor |
| Nationality | Greek-French |
| Period | 1968–present |
| Notable works |
Cyrano: Qui fut tout et qui ne fut rien, Héroïsme et victimisation, Les Métamorphoses et Tintin, L’Audience |
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Jean-Marie Apostolidès (French: [apɔstɔlidɛs]; born 1943) is a Greek-French novelist, essayist, playwright, theater director, and university professor. He was born in Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, France, on November 27, 1943.
Apostolidès grew up in Troyes, a traditional and bourgeois French town. His autobiographical novel, L’Audience, recounts his upbringing in this provincial city and paints a memorable picture of French life in the 1950s-1960s. This work centers on the author’s life-altering encounter with pope Pius XII, a “minor episode” that led him to abandon religion and devote himself to theater.
Following his “first vocation,” Apostolidès studied theater in Paris with , then moved on to the study of psychology and the social sciences, obtaining a master in psychology in Nanterre, in 1968. He then moved to Canada (Toronto, then Montreal) where he taught psychology. In 1972 his first play "Bobby Boom" was directed by Olivier Reichenbach, set design by Guy Neveu, at the Théâtre du Gèsu in Montreal. In 1972 he returned to France and undertook a doctorate in sociology with Jean Duvignaud as director. During this period, while teaching at the university of Tours, Apostolidès founded a production company and directed short films with Bertrand Renaudineau. He defended his thesis and obtained his doctorat d’état in literature and the social sciences in 1977. From 1981 to 1982, Apostolidès worked with Jean Gascon, French-Canadian theater director, on adapting Oedipus Rex for the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
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