Claude Sarraute (24 July 1927 – 20 June 2023) was a French writer and journalist and columnist for ''

Le Monde (; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...

''. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show '' Les Grosses Têtes'' between 1984 and 1995 and from 2014 until her death. She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten. Personal life Sarraute wa ...

, and lawyer Raymond Sarraute. Her first marriage, with American journalist

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(1925–2013), lasted from 1948 to 1955. She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara (1927–2018), son of Swedish artist

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and Romanian Dada poet

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. They had two sons, Laurent and Martin, and divorced in 1966. In 1967, she was married to

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(1924–2006), philosopher, writer and member of the

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from 1998 on. They had two children, a daughter Véronique (born 1968) and a son Nicolas Revel (born 1966), the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister

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. During the war, her mother and two sisters fled the capital because of the anti-Jewish laws of the Nazi-collaborating

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, but Claude and her father stayed in her native Paris. After the war, she worked for four years as an actress, mainly playing minor roles in avant-garde pieces by contemporaries like Romain Weingarten, until she started working for ''Le Monde'' in the early 1950s. She died in the

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on 20 June 2023, at the age of 95.

Novels

*''Dites donc!'' (1985: a collection of texts from her "Sur le vif" section in ''Le Monde'') *''Allô, Lolotte, c'est Coco'' (1987) *''Maman coq'' (1989) *''Mademoiselle, s'il vous plaît!'' (1991) *''Ah ! l'amour, toujours l'amour'' (1993) *''Des Hommes en général et des femmes en particulier'' (1996) *''C'est pas bientôt fini!'' (1998) *''Dis, est-ce que tu m'aimes?'' (2000) *''Dis voir, Maminette...'' (2003) *''Belle belle belle'' (2005) *''Avant que t'oublies tout!'' (2009, an autobiography written together with

Laurent Ruquier Laurent Hugues Emmanuel Ruquier (; born 24 February 1963) is a French television presenter, radio host and comedian. He is also a lyricist, writer, columnist and impresario; he has been co-owner and general manager of Théâtre Antoine-Simone B ...

) *''Encore un instant'' (2017)

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