Catherine Shan
Catherine Shan was a writer from France.
Biography
The daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father, she was born Catherine N'Diaye in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle and grew up in Africa. From 1975 to 1981, she was a philosophy professor in France. From 1982 to 1983, she worked in the office of the director general of UNESCO. Shan then was employed as a journalist, working with the group "Jeune Afrique", for the magazine Géo, for Radio Nederlands and as a freelancer. She also wrote or directed a number of films.
Gens de sable, autobiographical novel La coquetterie ou la passion du détail, essay La vie à deux, novel Sa vie africaine, novel
Selected films
Un dimanche à Paris, wrote scriptEmmanuel Bove, co-wrote scriptLe cycle des saisons, directorL'atelier de Susan, documentary, directorL'œil de la forêt, director