Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt – författare

'My name is Oscar and I'm ten years old . . . They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and I've never written to you because I don't even know if you exist,' writes Oscar in a letter to God.Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the 'ladies in pink' who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him. She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imagined future. One day equals ten years, and every night Oscar writes a letter to God telling him about his life.The ten letters that follow are sensitive, funny, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Oscar and the Lady in Pink is a small fable with a big heart; it will change the way you feel about death, and life.

Vpervye na russkom — novyj roman EH.-EH. SHmitta "YAd lyubvi». Esli v pervom romane dilogii, "EHliksir lyubvi», rech'' shla ob otnosheniyah vzroslyh, slozhivshih sya lyudej, o neizbezhnom ushcherbe, kotoryj nanosit vremya samym pylkim chuvstvam, to v knige, poluchivshej na zvanie "YAd lyubvi», avtor s nezhnym izumleniem vsmatrivaetsya v nepovtorimyj mir pervogo chuvstva. Do okonchaniya shkoly ostalos'' chut'' bol''she goda, no yunyh podruzhek — Dzhuliyu, Rafaehl'', Kolombu i Anushku — volnuet lish'' lyubov''. Kazhdaya iz nih zhazhdet vstretit'' svoego Romeo. Myslyami ob ehtom zapolneny ih dnevniki i perepiska. Podrugi uvereny, chto neobhodimo sdelat'' reshitel''nyj shag, perestupiv chertu, kotoraya otdelyaet ih ot mira vzroslyh. I vot Dzhuliya robko priznaetsya, chto letom ona sdelala "ehto». CHem otkliknetsya ee reshitel''nyj postupok? A ih druzhba — vyderzhit li ona gryadushchie ispytaniya? I voobshche, pri chem tut bessmertnyj SHekspir?! V nastoyashchee izdanie takzhe voshla znamenitaya p''esa EH.-EH. SHmitta "Otel'' dvuh mirov».

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden Crescent.This delightful, moving play has already been a huge hit in Paris and New York. Performed in thirteen countries and published in twelve languages, it is also an award-winning film starring Omar Sharif.Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an received its UK premiere at the Bush Theatre on 17 January 2006.

First publication in English of France's most successful contemporary playwright Don Juan on Trial: 'Brilliant dialogue' (Le Figaro); The Visitor: 'An overwhelming triumph ...a masterpiece' (Paris Match); 'Sharp, biting, unexpected and cunning' Le Figaro; Enigma Variations: 'Schmitt...writes with extreme cunning...a brilliant author' (Le Monde); 'Simple, shattering and witty. A play full of surprises' (L'Express); Between Worlds: Schmitt's eighth play is a metaphysical comedy set in the 'Two Worlds Hotel', where those in a coma come to stay while their medical dramas unfold back amongst the living."I have been looking for a play like this for the last twenty years" (Alain Delon of Enigma Variations)

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship

Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he''s caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden Crescent.

This delightful, moving play has already been a huge hit in Paris and New York. Performed in thirteen countries and published in twelve languages, it is also an award-winning film starring Omar Sharif.

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur''an received its UK premiere at the Bush Theatre on 17 January 2006.

Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his whole life upside down. Destined to live forever as an immortal, Noam travels through the centuries in search of the meaning of life, and the events which shaped who we have become today.Paradises Lost is the first installment of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s monumental project of recounting the history of humanity, the fruits of more than thirty years of research. The first in a series, and in the form of a stylistic novel much like Yuval Noah Harari crossed with Alexandre Dumas. Schmitt combines his scientific, religious and philosophical research to propel readers from one world to another, and from pre-history to today.