Colette Audry
Birth date
July 6, 1906
Death date
October 20, 1990
Place of birth
Orange, Vaucluse, France
Profession
Writing
Age
84 years
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. Source: Article "Colette Audry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
