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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Éric Jourdan
- Éric Jourdan (1930–7 February 2015) was a French novelist and playwright.Perhaps his most famous book is his first, Les Mauvais Anges (English: The Wicked Angels, also published in English under the title Two), published in 1955 at the age of 17.
- It was immediately a source of controversy for its frank and erotic depiction of a homosexual relationship between two adolescent boys.
- Despite being banned twice over the course of thirty years, it was critically acclaimed.
- A translation into English by Richard Howard soon followed, and was also well received.After the reception of Les Mauvais Anges, Jourdan continued to write using pseudonyms.
- He moved often and lived a bohemian lifestyle, living in Savoie and Tyrol, Austria before becoming the adopted ward of French-American writer Julien Green, after which he lived primarily in Paris.
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