The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.

In 1988, Kretzmer was elected a Chevalier of L ’ Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.

She was also cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.

Note: The Grammy nominations are credited to the composers and producers and not the artists, the Grammy for Les Miserables was awarded to Claude-Michel Schönberg ( composer and producer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ) and Alain Boublil ( producer ).

Herbert Kretzmer OBE ( born 5 October 1925 ) is a South African-born English journalist and lyric writer.

He is one of four brothers born to Lithuanian-born William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the racist pogroms of Czarist Russia to settle in small-town South Africa early in the 20th century.

On 8 April 2011, Kretzmer received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa.

For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

* 1987: Les Misérables – Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The new musical Marguerite is by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Schönberg's next project with Boublil, Marguerite, includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Kretzmer began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel.

After several years as a feature writer on the Daily Sketch, Kretzmer became a profile writer on the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express, interviewing John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Cary Grant and Duke Ellington.

Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.

Kretzmer won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren comedy hit “ Goodness Gracious Me ”, composed by David Lee.

Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Anthony Newley ’ s cult musical film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, whose score included “ When You Gotta Go ”, often used as a closing song by singers including Barbra Streisand.

Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical, Our Man Crichton, composed by David Lee and based on J M Barrie ’ s satirical play The Admirable Crichton.

Kretzmer later wrote ( with composer Laurie Johnson ) the lyrics for a large-scale comedy spoof, The Four Musketeers, which ran for more than a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as the swordsman d ' Artagnan.

Kretzmer ’ s lyrics extended the two-hour Paris original into a three-hour show.

For his work on the Les Misérables lyrics, Kretzmer received Tony and Grammy awards.

In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.

Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.

Kretzmer married Elisabeth Margaret Wilson, and they had one son and one daughter.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.