Anne-Marie Cazalis


Anne-Marie Cazalis was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.

Biography

She was a friend of Juliette Gréco. Briefly, she had an affair with a 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, 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

Cinema

Theatre

Books

Planh, 10 poèmes de Anne-Marie Cazalis, avec un portrait de l'auteur par Valentine Hugo, Paris, Odette Lieutier, February 1944. Written in French, 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.La Décennie, Fayard, 1972 La Tunisie par-ci par-là, Promotion africaine, Tunisia, 1972Kadhafi, le Templier d'Allah, Gallimard, 1974Le Cœur au poing, La Table ronde, 1976 Mémoires d'une Anne, Stock, 19761358, La Jacquerie de Paris, le destin tragique du maire Étienne Marcel, Société de production littéraire, 1977Les Belles Années, co-written with Anne-Marie Deschodt, Mercure de France, 1978

Awards

  • 1943, Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate