# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/romain-gary
# Generated: 2026-09-01T14:09:28.808Z

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description: "He won France's highest literary prize twice — the second time under a pseudonym so convincing the judges never knew they'd crowned the same man again."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Roman Leibovich Kacew in Lithuania on 21 May 1914, he became Romain Gary in France and built a life that spanned diplomacy, military aviation, film directing, and fiction. His novels earned him the Prix Goncourt in his own name, then again decades later as Émile Ajar — a separate identity he guarded so well that no one suspected the double victory until after his death on 2 December 1980. The stunt wasn't just ego: it was a proof that a writer could escape his own shadow, win on new terms, and leave the literary establishment looking at a mirror it didn't recognize.