Annie Hausen (4 August 1926 – 22 April 2020), known by her

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Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the

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for her lifetime’s writing. The daughter of Auguste and Marthe Roulette, she was born Annie Roulette in Aulaines in the

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department of France. She attended a

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for girls in

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from 1938 to 1939 and then the boys' lycée (now the ) from 1939 to 1945 while the girls' school was being used as a hospital. She taught at a collège in Paris, where she met her future husband, a Hungarian; after her marriage, she retired from teaching and returned to her native village. She published several novels, five autobiographical works, two collections of poetry and two plays, and adapted several of her works for film. In 1977, she received the

for the whole of her work. Paysan was named an Officier of the

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in 2011. She was also named a Knight in the French

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Selected works

* ''Écrit pour l'âme des cavaliers'', poetry (1956) * ''Nous autres les Sanchez'', novel (1961), received the Grand prix du Roman from the

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* ''Histoire d'une salamandre'', novel (1963) * ''Les Faiseurs de chance'', stories (1963) * ''Je m’appelle Jéricho'', novel (1964) * ''Les Feux de la Chandeleur'', novel (1966), received the Prix des libraires de France, adapted for film as ''

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'' (English title) * ''Le Nègre de Sables'', novel (1968) * ''Les Oiseaux migrateurs'', play (1969) * ''Comme l'or d'un anneau'', autobiographical novel (1971) * ''L’Empire du taureau'', novel (1974) * ''Pour le plaisir'', autobiographical novel (1976) * ''Le Clown de la rue Montorgeuil'' (1978) * ''Dame suisse sur un canapé de reps vert'', novel (1981) * ''Le Rendez-vous de Strasbourg'', novel (1984) * ''La Colline d'en face'', autobiographical novel (1987) * ''52 poèmes pour une année'', poetry (1989) * ''La Route vers la fiancée'', novel (1992) * ''Les Désarmés'', stories (2000), received the

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* ''La Prière parallèle'', novel (2003) * ''L’amour là-bas en Allemagne'', autobiographical novel (2006)

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