Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
July 6, 1906
Died
October 20, 1990 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Orange, Vaucluse, France
Colette Audry
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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