Catherine David (writer)

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

Education[]

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.

Works[]

• 1983: L'Océan miniature, novel, Éditions du Seuil, Prix Contrepoint
• 1990: Simone Signoret ou la mémoire partagée, biographical essay, Éditions Robert Laffont
• 1994: La Beauté du geste, essay on piano and Tai chi, Calmann-Lévy
• 1995: Passage de l'Ange, novel, Calmann-Lévy
• 2001: L'Homme qui savait tout, le roman de Pic de la Mirandole, novel, Éditions du Seuil
• 2003: Clandestine, narration, Éditions du Seuil
• 2006: Crescendo, avis aux amateurs, series "un endroit où aller", Actes Sud
• 2010: Les Violons sur le moi : pourquoi la célébrité nous fascine, cartoons by Jean-Jacques Sempé, essay, Éditions Denoël

In collaboration

• 1996: L'Occident en quête de sens, anthology, preface by Jean Daniel, Maisonneuve et Larose
• 1998: Little Bang : Le roman des commencements, with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, novel, Nil Éditions
• 1998: Égyptes, anthologie de l'ancien Empire à nos jours, anthology, Maisonneuve et Larose
• 1998: Entretiens sur la fin des temps, conversations with Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Delumeau, Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco, Fayard
• 2000: Sommes-nous seuls dans l'Univers ?, conversations with Jean Heidmann, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Nicolas Prantzos and Hubert Reeves, Fayard
• 2003: Sous le regard des dieux, conversation with Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Albin Michel

External links[]

• Catherine David on Babelio (with photograph)
• Clandestine de Catherine David on Éditions du Seuil
• Catherine David on the site of Éditions Gallimard

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