Colette Audry

Colette Audry ( born July 6, 1906 in Orange, † October 20, 1990 in Issy -les -Moulineaux ) was a French writer, scriptwriter and screenwriter.

Life

Colette Audry was the great-niece of the French President Gaston Doumergue. It was initially Agrégé de lettres and taught first 1930-1936 at the Lycée Jeanne d' Arc in Rouen, where she met amongst teachers Simone de Beauvoir. Before they finally went public as a writer of novels, screenplays and plays, she was a high school teacher at the Lycée Molière in Paris. From 1939 until the divorce in 1945 she was married to the literary scholar Robert Minder, with whom she had a son. Together with her then husband, she supported in 1940 the writer Alfred Doblin during its flight through Southwest France before the approaching German troops.

Between 1945 and 1955, Colette Audry collaborator of Jean -Paul Sartre's magazine Les Temps Modernes. As a screenwriter, she worked with René Clément (La bataille du rail, 1946) and with her sister Jacqueline Audry (Les Misfortunes of Sophie, 1946 and Fruits amers, 1967) together. For the novel Derrière la baignoire ( Behind the bath) she was awarded the 1962 Prix Médicis. The story The train was on time by Heinrich Böll translated Colette Audry in 1954 into French.

As a politician, she represented socialist positions and was, inter alia, an employee of François Mitterrand.