Sebastian Japrizo is a writer whose pen came out completely unlike the works of other authors detective stories. He was not a supporter of originality and did not seek to differ from other fellow writers in order to stand out. He simply wrote as he thought, as he considered it necessary and permissible for himself.
Biography of Japrizo
The real name of the French writer is Jean-Baptiste Rossi, he hails from Naples. The future writer of detectives was born in 1931 in Marseille, because his parents came here in search of a better life. However, Sebastian’s childhood was overshadowed by his father’s departure from the family, and he grew up mainly with his grandparents.
As a boy, Sebastian was very capable - he quickly learned languages, he had an excellent memory. Therefore, his mother allowed him to study at the Jesuit College of St. Ignatius. In college, he was one of the best students, and in addition to his main studies, he studied in depth chemistry and literature, and was also a good boxer. Such versatile classes give out a creative personality, and all these experiments in the future were very useful to the young writer in describing the stories of detective stories.
Attempt at writing
After college, Sebastian entered the Sorbonne - one of the leading universities in France. And already at the age of 17 he wrote the novel "The Bad Beginning." He did not hope that someone would be interested in the work of a young man, and it turned out in the end. However, after 15 years, "The Bad Start" was published in France and the United States.
The second stage of Russian writing is translations. He understood that it was too early to become a professional writer with his literary experience, so he decided to start translating other authors, one of which was Jerome David Salinger - his novel "The Catcher in the Rye." He also translates Westerns and detective stories of American writers, gradually developing his own literary style.
Rossi also tried to write scripts for films, but neither translations nor work in the cinema could provide an adequate standard of living. Then the future writer goes into advertising - he works immediately in two advertising agencies that serve the leading companies in Paris. This activity brings good income, and Jean-Baptiste can now take a vacation to begin to seriously engage in writing.
He wrote his second novel, The Death Coupe (1962), in just a week, and published it under a new name - Sebastian Japrizo.
Since then, he could consider himself an accomplished writer. And when, a year later, Japrizo published the novel "The Trap for Cinderella", he received his first award: Grand Prix of Police Literature.
In 1966, Sebastian awaits a resounding success: several awards for the novel "A Lady with Glasses with a Gun in a Car" and proposals for the film adaptation of the novel from the largest directors in Europe. Now, Japrizo alternately engages in scripting, or in writing a new novel, and his career is successfully going uphill.
