Serge Groussard

Serge Groussard (; 18 January 1920 – 1 January 2016) was a French journalist and writer, the son of colonel Georges Groussard and Véra Bernstein-Woolbrunn.

Biography Serge Groussard studied at the Calvin Institute in Montauban, at the La Rochelle high school, and at the Lycée Gouraud in Rabat, Morocco.

Selected works Groussard wrote twenty-five books, including twenty novels, eight of which were adapted to film:

Crépuscule des vivants (1946) Pogrom (1948) Solitude espagnole, Prix International du Grand-Reportage, Prix Claude Blanchard (1948) Des gens sans importance, Prix Populiste (1949) – adapted to film under the title People of No Importance by Henri Verneuil (1956) La Femme sans passé, Prix Femina (1950) – adapted to film under the title The Passerby by Henri Calef (1951) Talya (1951) Orage à Miami and L'Ancêtre (1954) Un officier de tradition (1954) Une chic fille, recueils de nouvelles, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle (1956) Demain est là (1956) La Belle espérance (1958) Quartier chinois (1958) La Passion du Maure (1960) Jeunesse sauvage (1960) Mektoub, Prix du roman populiste (1967) Tu es soleil (1970) Taxi de nuit (1971) L'Algérie des adieux (1972) La Médaille de sang (1973) La Guerre oubliée (1974) Les Cobras (1981)

Honours Officier de la Légion d'honneur Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Médaille de la Résistance Croix de la Valeur militaire Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres