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Colette Audry

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

Audry was born inOrange, Vaucluse.She won thePrix Médicisfor the autobiographical novelDerrière la baignoire(Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim forThe Battle for the Railwayand also wrote for her sisterJacqueline.[1]In politics she was a member of theAnti-Stalinist left[2][3](she was a member of theWorkers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate toSimone de Beauvoir.[4]She died atIssy-les-Moulineaux,aged 84.

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Web sources

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  1. ^New York Times obituary
  2. ^Brottman, Mikita(2014).The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Literary, Royal, Philosophical, and Artistic Dog Lovers and Their Exceptional Animals.Harper Collins. p. 18.ISBN978-0-06-230463-6.Retrieved20 June2020.
  3. ^Birchall, Ian H.(2004).Sartre Against Stalinism.Berghahn Books. pp. 5–8.ISBN978-1-78238-973-6.Retrieved20 June2020.
  4. ^Radical PhilosophyArchived2007-01-02 at theWayback Machine