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Biography
Anne-Marie Cazalis (1920 in Boufarik, Algeria – July 30, 1988 in Paris) was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.
Biography
Cazalis won the Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate in 1943. She was a friend of Juliette Gréco and briefly had an affair with little known cellist Paul Taylor 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, as a correspondent for Elle magazine, she travelled all around the world. She also participated in a few films and published several essays and novels.
Works
Cinema
- 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
- 1951: Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, script by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Louis Jouvet, Théâtre Antoine
Books
- Planh, 10 poèmes de Anne-Marie Cazalis, avec un portrait de l'auteur par Valentine Hugo, Paris, Odette Lieutier, February 1944
- 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)
Planh
Planh. 10 poèmes de Anne-Marie Cazalis, avec un portrait de l'auteur par Valentine Hugo is the title of a poetry book written in French by Anne-Marie Cazalis.
The work was published in Paris in February 1944 by Odette Lieutier. Still under German occupation, the editor issued only 250 hand-made books. A quadrilingual new edition in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish was published in 2012.