Anne-Marie Cazalis ( – 30 July 1988) was a French writer, journalist and briefly an actress.
Biography She was a friend of Juliette Gréco. Briefly, she had an affair with a 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, a correspondent for Elle magazine. She travelled all around the world. She also participated in a few films and published several essays and novels. In 1948, she worked with Jean Cau on the screenplay for Ulysse ou les Mauvaises Rencontres, a pochade filmed by Alexandre Astruc.
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. Written in French, the work was published in Paris in February 1944 by Odette Lieutier. Still under German occupation, the editor issued only 250 hand-made books.http://www.galaxidion.com/home/catalogues.php?cpg=1&sortOrder=relevance&author=&title=planh A quadrilingual new edition in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish was published in 2012. 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)
Awards 1943, Paul-Valéry award for poetry laureate
References
Sources 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]