Catherine Rihoit (Born in
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.
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for ''Le bal des débutantes''. Her 1982 novel ''La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français'' was made into a film, ''
That Night in Varennes'', the same year.
Her writing is often on subjects around Roman Catholicism. She has written biographies of
Thérèse of Lisieux (Plon, 1992),
Brigitte Bardot (1986),
Dalida, and
Bernadette Soubirous (2009).
Selected works
*1977: ''Autrement, ailleurs'': poems
*1978: ''Le bal des débutantes'',
Éditions Gallimard,
Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.
The name derives from ...
*1978: ''Portrait de Gabriel'', Gallimard,
Prix Contrepoint
*1980: ''Les Abîmes du cœur'', Gallimard
*1983: ''Soleil'', Gallimard
*1986: ''Brigitte Bardot, un mythe français'',
*1988: ''Retour à Cythère''
*1992: ''La petite princesse de Dieu'',
Plon - (a biography of Thérèse of Lisieux)
*1999: ''La Dame au loup'', Stock
*2002: ''La Chambre de feu''
*2005: ''Les Maîtres du sens: Bergman, Fassbinder, Lynch, Pasolini, Visconti et quelques autres...,'' Séguier
*2007: ''Au Bonheur des chats''
*2009: ''Dalida: Mon frère tu écriras mes mémoires'',
Plon - (a biography of Dalida)
with collaboration of Orlando
*2009: ''J'ai vu: L'extraordinaire histoire de Bernadette Soubirous'', Plon
References
1950 births
Living people
Prix des Deux Magots winners
Writers from Caen
20th-century French writers
21st-century French writers
French women novelists
French biographers
Women biographers
20th-century French women writers
21st-century French women writers
French women historians
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