Jorge Semprún, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 - By Bruce Weber (The New York Times)

Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Communist organizer and Communist dissident, and who wrote distinguished screenplays for Alain Resnais, Costa-Gavras, Joseph Losey and other directors, died last Tuesday at his home in Paris ... read more