Claude Arnaud is a French writer, essayist, biographer. He won the 2006 Prix Femina Essai.

Biography

He worked as an offset printing activist, and participated with the Workers' Struggle

Workers' Struggle

Lutte Ouvrière is the usual name under which the Union Communiste , a French Trotskyist political party, is known, after the name of its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller has been its spokeswoman since 1973 and has run in each presidential election, but Robert Barcia was its founder and central...

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From 1977–83 he worked in "Film" monthly, led by Jacques Fieschi

Jacques Fieschi

Jacques Fieschi is a French screenwriter. He has written for 22 films since 1985. He wrote and directed the film French California, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

. He studied literature at the University of Vincennes.
He wrote a play about "the redemptive powers of love," with Bernard Minoret, "Les salons" ("Trade shows"). In 1988, he published a biography of Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary of Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club.-Life:...

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Works

• Bernard Minoret, Claude Arnaud, Les salons, J.C. Lattès, 1985
• Le caméléon: roman, B. Grasset, 1994, ISBN 9782246456018
• Le jeu des quatre coins: roman, B. Grasset, 1998, ISBN 9782246538813
• Jean Cocteau, Gallimard, 2003, ISBN 9782070752331
• Qui dit je en nous: une histoire subjective de l'identité, Grasset, 2006, ISBN 9782246699811
• Babel 1990: Rome, Saint-Pétersbourg, New York, Gallimard, 2008, ISBN 9782070348848
• Qu'as-tu fait de tes frères?, Grasset & Fasquelle, 2010, ISBN 9782246771111
• John Richardson, Elizabeth Cowling, Claude Arnaud, Picasso: the Mediterranean years 1945–1962, Rizzoli, 2010, ISBN 9780847835355
• Les chemins creux, Editions Graine d'Auteur, 2011, ISBN 9782356630186

External links

• "Claude Arnaud", French wikipedia
• Author's website