Nahal Tajadod was born 1960 and left homeland for France in 1977. She studied at INALCO where she obtained a doctorate in Chinese. Her thesis was on Mani, the Buddha of light and gave for the first time a translation of a Manichean text in Chinese, a real textbook written by the Manicheans themselves.Jean-Claude Carrière born 1931 is a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree.