1931-2003 FR, Marseille
A.k.a. Jean-Baptiste Rossi
Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 – 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".Famous in the Francophony, he is little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.