
Bitter Fruit
1967 · 9.0/10
New
Director · born 6 July 1906 · Orange, Vaucluse, France
Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic.
Audry was born in Orange, Vaucluse. She won the Prix Médicis for the autobiographical novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim for The Battle for the Railway and also wrote for her sister Jacqueline. In politics she was a member of the Anti-Stalinist left (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir. She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84.
Where to start: Bitter Fruit (1967).