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

Orange, Vaucluse Orange (; Provençal: ''Aurenja'' or ''Aurenjo'' ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is about north of Avignon, on the departmental border with Gard, which follows ...

. 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. In politics she was a member of the

Anti-Stalinist left The anti-Stalinist left is an umbrella term for various kinds of left-wing political movements that opposed Joseph Stalin, Stalinism and the actual system of governance Stalin implemented as leader of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953. T ...

(she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...

.Radical Philosophy.com
She died at

Issy-les-Moulineaux Issy-les-Moulineaux () is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine. Its citizens are called ''Isséens'' in French. It is one of Paris' entrances and is located from Notre-Dame Cath ...

, aged 84.

Selected filmography

* '' The Misfortunes of Sophie'' (1946)

Web sources

1906 births 1990 deaths People from Orange, Vaucluse Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party politicians Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians Socialist Party (France) politicians French socialist feminists French women novelists Prix Médicis winners French women screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French novelists Anti-Stalinist left 20th-century French screenwriters Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 {{france-screen-writer-stub