Colette Audry
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 8
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- July 6, 1906
- Died
- October 20, 1990
- Place of birth
- Orange, Vaucluse, France
Biography
Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic.
Audry was born in Orange, Vaucluse. She won the Prix Médicis for the autobiographical novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim for The Battle for the Railway and also wrote for her sister Jacqueline. In politics she was a member of the Anti-Stalinist left (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir. She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84.
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