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Rene Goscinny

René Goscinny
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Born (1926-08-14)14 August 1926
Paris, France
Died 5 November 1977(1977-11-05) (aged 51)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s) d'Agostini, Stanislas
Notable works
Astérix
Iznogoud
Le Petit Nicolas
Lucky Luke
Oumpah-pah
Collaborators Albert Uderzo
Jean-Jacques Sempé
Morris
Marcel Gotlib
Jean Tabary
Awards full list
Spouse(s) Gilberte Pollaro-Millo (1967–1977; his death; 1 child)

René Goscinny (French: [ʁəne ɡosini]; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known internationally for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series' golden age) and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.

Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny (the surname means hospitable in Polish; Simkha is his Jewish name meaning happiness), a chemical engineer from Warsaw, Poland, and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków, a small village near Żytomierz in the Second Polish Republic (now part of Ukraine). Claude, René's older brother was born six years earlier, on 10 December 1920. Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. The Gościnnys moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, two years after René's birth, because of a chemical engineer post Stanisław had obtained there. He spent a happy childhood in Buenos Aires, and studied in the French schools there. He had a habit of being the "class clown", probably to compensate for a natural shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated stories which he enjoyed reading.

In December 1943, the year after he graduated from school, 17-year-old Goscinny lost his father to a cerebral hemorrhage, forcing him to find a job. The next year, he got his first job, as an assistant accountant in a tire recovery factory, and when he was laid off the following year, he became a junior illustrator in an advertising agency.


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