Anne-Marie Cazalis

Anne-Marie Cazalis (c. 1920 – 30 July 1988) was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.

Anne-Marie Cazalis
Born	c.1920 Boufarik, Algeria
Died	30 July 1988(1988-07-30) (aged 67–68) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist, actress

Biography

She was a friend of Juliette Gréco. Briefly, she had an affair with a little-known cellist, Paul Taylor,^[1] 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,^[2] the work was published in Paris in February 1944 by Odette Lieutier. Still under German occupation, the editor issued only 250 hand-made books.^[3][4] A quadrilingual new edition in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish was published in 2012.^[5]
• 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