Serge Groussard (18 January 1921 – 2 January 2016, NiortDeux-Sèvres) 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, then at the Faculty of Arts in Paris, and finally at Sciences Po.
In September 1939, he volunteered for the duration of the war, and participated as a pupil infantry officer in the fighting on the Loire. An information Officer for the French Resistance, he was arrested in January 1943 by the Gestapo, sentenced to thirty years in prison and deported to Germany.
He will relate this experience in his first work published in 1946: Le Crépuscule des vivants.
While earning his living, he finished Sciences Po, got a bachelor's degree in Letters (classics) and a bachelor's degree in English, and prepared the agrégation of English with Raymond Las Vergnas [fr]. He succeeded in several competitions, among others that of the École nationale d'administration (class France Combattante, 1946–47), but he quickly abandoned public service for writing.
In 1953 Serge Groussard was a military parachutist. From October 1956 to October 1957 then recalled voluntary in 1959, lieutenant then captain in Algeria, to which he dedicated a narrative Écrivain.
His career was devoted to the writing of novels and reportages for Le Figaro from 1954 to 1962 ; for l'Aurore from 1962 to 1969. Il devient ensuite conseiller et chroniqueur au Figaro de 1969 à 1975.
Works
He is the author of twenty-five books, including twenty novels, eight of which were adapted to the cinema:
1946: Crépuscule des vivants
1948: Pogrom
1948: Solitude espagnole, Prix International du Grand-Reportage, Prix Claude Blanchard
