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Most people picture a director behind a camera, not behind a typewriter. Yet a surprising number of filmmakers have published fiction, some before they ever shot a frame and some long after.
The ten names below come from several countries and generations. Each one produced a novel or fiction that stands on its own, and the books reveal as much about their films as the films do about the books.
Jean Cocteau
Cocteau was a poet, painter and playwright before he became a filmmaker. He published the novel Thomas l’imposteur in 1923, and in 1929 he followed it with Les Enfants terribles, a short, feverish book about a brother and sister locked inside their own private games.
His directing career produced The Blood of a Poet in 1930, Beauty and the Beast in 1946 and Orphée in 1950. Les Enfants terribles reached the screen in 1950 too, directed by Jean Pierre Melville with Cocteau writing the adaptation and supplying the narration.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pasolini established himself in Italian letters first. His novel Ragazzi di vita appeared in 1955, followed by Una vita violenta in 1959, and both drew on the lives of young people in the poor outskirts of Rome.
He moved into directing with Accattone in 1961 and kept returning to the same streets and faces in Mamma Roma the following year. His last film, Salò, came out in 1975, the year he was killed. The unfinished novel Petrolio…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-10-15 06:51:00
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