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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (French pronunciation: [eʁik emanɥɛl ʃmit]; born 28 March 1960) is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
In 2016, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt was unanimously elected a member of the Goncourt Jury, receiving Seat No. 2 formerly occupied by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Jules Renard and Sacha Guitry. On 21 July the same year, he was awarded the Order of the Crown by King Philip of Belgium.
Apr 3, 2024 · At the heart of Enigma, an operatic adaptation by Patrick Burgan of author Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s play Enigma Variations, two men come face to face in a highly confidential setting and draw us into an uncanny emotional labyrinth. How do the sensitivity and poignancy of this play translate on the opera stage?
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 50, started his working life as a teacher of philosophy in Paris and is now among France's best-selling and most productive authors. Described as a "lucid moralist", his deceptively simple plays and novels have been translated into 43 languages.
Extended Biography. Within a decade, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt has become one of the most read and acted French-language writers in the world. His books have been translated into 43 languages, and more than 50 countries regularly perform his plays.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt has 162 books on Goodreads with 336597 ratings. Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s most popular book is Oscar et la dame rose.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyons, France, in 1960. He studied Philosophy and Music in Lyon and at the famous École normale supérieure in Paris, and obtained his doctorate in philosophy. While still a professor at the Savoie University, he started writing plays.
