Anne-Marie Cazalis (c. 1920 – 30 July 1988) was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.
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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
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. 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 (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)
Awards
1943, Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate
