Claude Arnaud

Claude Arnaud (born 1955) is a French writer, essayist, biographer. He won the 2006 Prix Femina Essai.^[1]

Biography

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

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

Villa Medicis

He was Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1989 and 1990.

Works

• Bernard Minoret, Claude Arnaud, Les salons, J.C. Lattès, 1985
• Chamfort, a biography. University of Chicago Press. 1992. ISBN 9780226026978. http://books.google.com/books?id=THhMhCF1RqYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Claude+Arnaud&hl=en&ei=w0m0TsKkBqSCsgLT98H0Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• 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

References

1. ^ http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/claude-arnaud-23757.php

External links

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

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Name	Arnaud, Claude
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Short description	Writer and biographer
Date of birth	1955
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