Edmonde Charles-Roux
Edmonde Charles -Roux ( born April 17, 1920 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine, France ) is a French writer and journalist.
Life
Edmonde Charles -Roux is the daughter of French historian and diplomat François Charles -Roux ( 1879-1961 ). During the Second World War, she volunteered as a nurse for the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion. During a mission in Verdun it was wounded. Then she joined the Resistance as a nurse and helped the 5th Panzer Division, the 1st Cavalry abroad Devision ( 1er REC ) and the Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion ( RMLE ). For their efforts, she was awarded several times later. So they received, among others, the Croix de Guerre and was made an honorary member of the Foreign Legion.
After the war, Charles -Roux worked as a journalist in the newly established women's magazine Elle and from 1948 in the French edition of the fashion magazine Vogue, where she was editor in chief in 1954. This remained until 1966. She had to leave the magazine after she had tried to bring a black woman on the cover. Three months later appeared with Oublier Palermo her first novel. In the same year she won the prestigious French literary prize for her debut with Prix Goncourt. Francesco Rosi filmed the book in 1990 under the title Lost Palermo with James Belushi, Mimi Rogers and Joss Ackland in the lead roles. My 1979 book published in Le Temps Chanel was published for the 2008 and directed by Anne Fontaine historical film Coco Chanel - The beginning of a passion with Audrey Tautou in the title role of Coco Chanel.
1983 joined Charles -Roux at the French Académie Goncourt since 2002 and is the President of this Association literature. In 2008 she was a member of a commission of the Académie de France à Rome.
1966 Charles -Roux learned the French politician Gaston Defferre, whom she married in 1973. He later became Minister of the Interior in the government of François Mitterrand and died on May 7, 1986 in his office as Mayor of Marseille.
Works
- Elle, Adrienne, Wunderlich Verlag, Stuttgart 1972
- Chanel, Wunderlich Verlag, Stuttgart 1976