Christiane Rochefort, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christiane Rochefort

French writer

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1917

Place of Birth: 14th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 24-Apr-1998

Profession: screenwriter, writer, translator, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) was a French feminist writer.
She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), in 1958.
Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot.
Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies.
She won the Prix Médicis in 1988.
Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.