Anne-Marie Cazalis

Anne-Marie Cazalis
Born	1920 Boufarik, Algeria
Died	July 30, 1988 Paris, France
Occupation(s)	writer, journalist, actor

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

Biography

Cazalis won the Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate in 1943. She was a friend of Juliette Gréco and briefly had an affair with 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, as a correspondent for Elle magazine, she travelled all around the world. She also participated in a few films and published several essays and novels.

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
• 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)

Planh

Planh. 10 poèmes de Anne-Marie Cazalis, avec un portrait de l'auteur par Valentine Hugo is the title of a poetry book written in French by Anne-Marie Cazalis.

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.

Bibliography

• Anne-Marie Cazalis, Mémoires d'une Anne, Stock, 1976
• Boris Vian, Manuel de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1951
• Vincent Gille, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1945-1950, Paris-Musées, 1989

External links

• Note about the author at Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF.fr)
• Anne-Marie Cazalis recites the poem entitled La Liberté in the cave Le Tabou, Paris, 1947 [Video]