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Catherine David (writer)

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Catherine David
Born
Catherine Gradwohl

(1949-12-02) 2 December 1949 (age 74)
NationalityFrench
EducationSciences Po
Swarthmore College
OccupationWriter
SpouseJean-Paul Enthoven
ChildrenRaphaël Enthoven

Catherine Gradwohl (born 2 December 1949) called Catherine David is a Franco-American novelist, essayist, literary critic and amateur pianist.

Formation

After her secondary studies, Catherine David spent one year at the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Graduated from Institut d'études politiques de Paris, she also holds a degree in history from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

With philosopher Jean-Paul Enthoven, she had a son, Raphaël, agrégé in philosophy and audiovisual chronicler.

After she worked with several publishing houses (Gallimard, Jean-Jacques Pauvert), she turned to literary criticism and journalism at the Nouvel Observateur in the cultural field - literature, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, human sciences, history of sciences, prehistory, astrophysics.

In 1984, she won the Prix Contrepoint for her first novel, L'Océan miniature.

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