Catherine David (writer)

Catherine Gradwohl (2 December 1949 – 2 January 2023), better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.

Catherine David
Born
Catherine Gradwohl

(1949-12-02)2 December 1949
Died2 January 2023(2023-01-02) (aged 73)
Resting placeMontmartre Cemetery
EducationSciences Po
Swarthmore College
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
OccupationWriter
SpouseJean-Paul Enthoven
Children3 (including Raphaël Enthoven)
RelativesCarla Bruni (daughter-in-law)

Life and career

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Catherine David is of Jewish Alsatian descent on her father's side and American Catholic on her mother's side.[1]

After her secondary studies, David spent one year at the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Graduated from Sciences Po, she also holds a degree in history from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

With philosopher Jean-Paul Enthoven, she had a son, Raphaël, agrégé in philosophy and audiovisual chronicler.

After she worked with several publishing houses (Gallimard, Jean-Jacques Pauvert), she turned to literary criticism and journalism at the Nouvel Observateur in the cultural field – literature, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, human sciences, history of sciences, prehistory, astrophysics.

In 1984, she won the Prix Contrepoint for her first novel, L'Océan miniature.

David died in Paris on 2 January 2023, at the age of 73.[2]

Works

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In collaboration

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References

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  1. ^ Joffrin, Laurent (4 January 2023). "Hommage à notre amie Catherine David". Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Carla Bruni en deuil : elle annonce la mort de la grand-mère de son fils Aurélien". Closer (in French). 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
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