Colette Audry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Colette Audry

French novelist, screenwriter, and critic

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1906

Place of Birth: Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 20-Oct-1990

Profession: screenwriter, writer, politician, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic. Audry was born in Orange, Vaucluse.
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 (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir.
She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84.