Colette Audry

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1906-07-06

Deathday 1990-10-20 (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. Source: Article "Colette Audry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Writer

1971
Raped On The Beach

as Dialogue

1968
Le Socrate

as Dialogue

1967
Bitter Fruit

as Screenplay

1958
Provisional Liberty

as Screenplay

1951
Olivia

as Adaptation

1951
Olivia

as Writer

1946
1946
Sophie's Misfortune

as Adaptation

Director

1967
Bitter Fruit

as Director

Actor

1975
Apostrophes

as Self