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Name
  
Colette Audry

Nominations
  
Prix Goncourt

Siblings
  
Jacqueline Audry

Books
  
Behind the Bathtub

Role
  
Novelist


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Died
  
October 20, 1990, Paris, France

Movies
  
The Battle of the Rails, Olivia

Similar People
  
Jacqueline Audry, Rene Clement, Eugene Ionesco, Dorothy Bussy, Edwige Feuillere

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Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic.

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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.

Selected filmography

  • The Misfortunes of Sophie (1946)
  • References

    Colette Audry Wikipedia