Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979

LC control no.	n 50044588
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ2621.E77
Personal name heading	Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kesselʹ, Zh. (Zhozef), 1898-1979 Кессель, Ж. (Жозеф), 1898-1979 Kesselʹ, Zhozef, 1898-1979 Кессель, Жозеф, 1898-1979 Ḳesel, Yosef, 1898-1979 קסל, יוסף
Located	Orenburg (Russia) France
Birth date	1898-02-10
Death date	1979-07-23
Place of birth	Villa Clara (Argentina)
Profession or occupation	Journalist Novelist
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	His L'équipage, 1923. Courrière, Y. Joseph Kessel ... c1985: t.p. (Joseph Kessel) p. 925, etc. (d. 7-23-79) His Belladona, 1930: t.p. (Zh. Kesselʹ) Dnevnai︠a︡ krasavit︠s︡a, 1995: t.p. (Zhozef Kesselʹ) Tseva ha-tselalim, 1954: t.p. (Yosef Ḳesel) Rêver Kessel, c2004: p. 7 (Joseph Kessel died on July 23, 1979) English Wikipedia website, viewed Oct. 19, 2016: (Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898--23 July 1979) was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Kessel was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Litvak doctor. From 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France in 1908. He studied in the Lycée Masséna, Nice and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator. He was also an aviator during the Second World War, assigned to the Free French 342 "Lorraine" bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force, with Romain Gary, who was also a talented French novelist. Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of Free French Forces during the Second World War. Joseph Kessel died on July 23, 1979 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise)