A screenwriter of global repute, Jean-Claude Carrière currently resides in Paris, France. He has created some amazing films with directors ranging from Buñuel to Godard. His nineteen-year collaboration with Luis Buñuel began with the film Diary of a Chambermaid (1964). The two collaborated on nearly all of Buñuel’s later films, working on 6 other films together. He also wrote screenplays for Danton (1983), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), La dernière image (1986), Valmont (1989), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Birth (2004), and Goya’s Ghosts, and co-wrote Max, Mon Amour (1986) with director Nagisa Oshima.
He has also adapted several ‘unfilmable’ works of literature into film – The Tin Drum (1979), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) as well as Proust (Swann in Love). Carrière also adapted The Mahabharata as a nine-hour stage production for his long-time collaborator Sir Peter Brook. Apart from films, Carrière has also written several operas, books with the Dalai Lama, a TV series on Robinson Crusoe, a published conversation with Umberto Eco on technology and literature, among others.