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Anne-Marie Cazalis
Bornc.1920
Boufarik, Algeria
Died30 July 1988(1988-07-30) (aged 67–68)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, actress

Anne-Marie Cazalis (c. 1920 – 30 July 1988) was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.

Biography[edit]

She was a friend of Juliette Gréco. Briefly, she had an affair with a little-known cellist, Paul Taylor,[1] and both became emblematic personalities of the Parisian nights of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where she frequented other writers such as Boris Vian and Jean-Paul Sartre. She later became a journalist and, a correspondent for Elle magazine. She travelled all around the world. She also participated in a few films and published several essays and novels. In 1948, she worked with Jean Cau on the screenplay for Ulysse ou les Mauvaises Rencontres, a pochade filmed by Alexandre Astruc.

Works[edit]

Cinema[edit]

  • 1949: Désordre by Jacques Baratier (short film)
  • 1950: Le Château de verre by René Clément : the standardiste
  • 1950: Le Quadrille by Jacques Rivette, with Jean-Luc Godard (short film)
  • 1966: Le Désordre à vingt ans by Jacques Baratier (documentary)

Theatre[edit]

  • 1951: Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, script by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Louis Jouvet, Théâtre Antoine

Books[edit]

  • Planh, 10 poèmes de Anne-Marie Cazalis, avec un portrait de l'auteur par Valentine Hugo, Paris, Odette Lieutier, February 1944. Written in French,[2] the work was published in Paris in February 1944 by Odette Lieutier. Still under German occupation, the editor issued only 250 hand-made books.[3][4] A quadrilingual new edition in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish was published in 2012.[5]
  • La Décennie, Fayard, 1972 (novel)
  • La Tunisie par-ci par-là, Promotion africaine, Tunisia, 1972
  • Kadhafi, le Templier d'Allah, Gallimard, 1974
  • Le Cœur au poing, La Table ronde, 1976 (novel)
  • Mémoires d'une Anne, Stock, 1976
  • 1358, La Jacquerie de Paris, le destin tragique du maire Étienne Marcel, Société de production littéraire, 1977
  • Les Belles Années, co-written with Anne-Marie Deschodt, Mercure de France, 1978 (novel)

Awards[edit]

  • 1943, Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

  • Anne-Marie Cazalis, Mémoires d'une Anne, Stock, 1976
  • Boris Vian, Manuel de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1951
  • Vincent Gille, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1945–1950, Paris-Musées, 1989

External links[edit]

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