Colette Audry

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.[1] In politics she was a member of the Anti-Stalinist left[2][3] (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir.[4] She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84.

Selected filmography

• The Misfortunes of Sophie (1946)

Web sources

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. ISBN 978-0-06-230463-6. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
3. Birchall, Ian H. (2004). Sartre Against Stalinism. Berghahn Books. pp. 5–8. ISBN 978-1-78238-973-6. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
4. Radical Philosophy.com Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine