Roland Topor

Roland Topor
Born(1938-01-07)7 January 1938
Paris, France
Died16 April 1997(1997-04-16) (aged 59)
Paris, France
OccupationIllustrator, cartoonist, painter, playwright, designer, painter, animator, fiction writer, actor, film and TV script writer
Period1964–1997
GenreSatire, Surrealism
Literary movementPanic Movement
Notable worksThe Tenant

Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor,[1] who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland.[2] He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Roland Topor". lambiek.net.
  2. ^ [1] Kraus, Jerelle. “Endpaper -- The Lives They Lived: Roland Topor; A Graphic Wit”. The New York Times Magazine. 4 Jan 1998