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François Weyergans
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Film & TV
Etterbeek, Belgium
François Weyergans (2 August 1941 – 27 May 2019) was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Académie française on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008. He started film studies at the IDHEC (Hautes…
Known for
- Ciné regards — Self1978
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- Bresson: Without a Trace — Self - Interviewer1965
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- François
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Etterbeek
- Place of death
- 1st arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Collège Saint-Michel
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- belletristic literature
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- date of birth
- 1941-08-02
- member of
- Académie Française
- date of death
- 2019-05-27
- name in native language
- François Weyergans
- writing language
- French
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- birth name
- François Marie Weyergans
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
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