Jean-Marc Roberts

Jean-Marc Roberts (3 May 195425 March 2013) was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.

Life
He started writing in the early 1970s. He was awarded the 1973 Fénéon Prize for Samedi, dimanche et fêtes (English: Saturday, Sunday and holidays), and, in 1979, the Prix Renaudot for his novel Affaires étrangères (English: Foreign Affairs). He was an editor for Seuil, the Mercure de France and Fayard and a director of Editions Stock.

He died of cancer on 25 March 2013.

Screenplays

 * Une étrange affaire de Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1981, after his Affaires étranges.
 * Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt! by Denys Granier-Deferre, 1982, after his Les Bêtes curieuses.
 * L'Ami de Vincent by Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1983, after his novel.
 * Cours privé by Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1986.
 * Elles n'oublient jamais (Love in the Strangest Way) by Christopher Frank, 1993.
 * Faux et usage de faux
 * La Couleur du vent
 *  les gros salaires levent le doigt!!!