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Catherine Gradwohl (2 December 1949 – 2 January 2023), better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.
Catherine David | |
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| Born | Catherine Gradwohl 2 December 1949 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Died | 2 January 2023 (aged 73) 14th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Education | Sciences Po Swarthmore College Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Jean-Paul Enthoven |
| Children | 3 (including Raphaël Enthoven) |
| Relatives | Carla Bruni (daughter-in-law) |
Life and career
editCatherine 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.
Works
edit- 1983: L'Océan miniature, novel, Éditions du Seuil, Prix Contrepoint
- 1990: Simone Signoret ou la mémoire partagée, biographical essay, Éditions Robert Laffont
- 1994: La Beauté du geste, essay on piano and Tai chi, Calmann-Lévy
- 1995: Passage de l'Ange, novel, Calmann-Lévy
- 2001: L'Homme qui savait tout, le roman de Pic de la Mirandole, novel, Éditions du Seuil
- 2003: Clandestine, narration, Éditions du Seuil
- 2006: Crescendo, avis aux amateurs, series "un endroit où aller", Actes Sud
- 2010: Les Violons sur le moi : pourquoi la célébrité nous fascine, cartoons by Jean-Jacques Sempé, essay, Éditions Denoël
In collaboration
edit- 1996: L'Occident en quête de sens, anthology, preface by Jean Daniel, Maisonneuve et Larose
- 1998: Little Bang : Le roman des commencements, with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, novel, Nil Éditions
- 1998: Égyptes, anthologie de l'ancien Empire à nos jours, anthology, Maisonneuve et Larose
- 1998: Entretiens sur la fin des temps, conversations with Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Delumeau, Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco, Fayard
- 2000: Sommes-nous seuls dans l'Univers ?, conversations with Jean Heidmann, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Nicolas Prantzos and Hubert Reeves, Fayard
- 2003: Sous le regard des dieux, conversation with Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Albin Michel
References
edit- ^ Joffrin, Laurent (4 January 2023). "Hommage à notre amie Catherine David". Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "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.
External links
edit- Catherine David on Babelio (with photograph)
- Clandestine de Catherine David on Éditions du Seuil
- Catherine David on the site of Éditions Gallimard