Christine Arnothy

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Christine Arnothy (born 1934 in Budapest, Hungary) is a French writer. She has written numerous books including J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir. It is a book following her life and escape from Budapest during the Second World War.

She left Hungary, crossing the border with her parents. On her arrival in France, she had only one thing: a journal of her life in Budapest.

She married Claude Bellanger (1909–1978).

When her book J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir was translated into English, it was split into two separate books. I am fifteen and do not want to die is a personal record of her own experience, as a teenager, during the 1945 siege of Budapest. It was reviewed in Harpers Magazine in 1956.^[1] The sequel, It is not so easy to live chronicles her escape via Vienna to Paris, where she eventually settled and married.

She also wrote a couple of detective stories under the alias William Dickinson.