Colette Audry

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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.^[1] 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.^[2] She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 97636194 LCCN: n85052991 ISNI: 0000 0001 2144 6691 GND: 119186934 SUDOC: 028688775 BNF: cb11889503x

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Name	Audry, Colette
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Short description	French novelist, screenwriter, and critic
Date of birth	1906
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Date of death	1990
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