Anne-Marie Garat | |
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 Garat in 2011 | |
| Born | 9 October 1946 |
| Died | 26 July 2022 (aged 75) |
| Alma mater | Université de Paris I |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Anne-Marie Garat (9 October 1946 – 26 July 2022) was a French novelist. She won thePrix Femina for her novelAden in 1992 and thePrix Marguerite-Audoux [fr] for her novelLes mal famées.
Studying literature inBordeaux, she then obtained aDEA incinema at theuniversité de Paris I. She lived in Paris, where she taught cinema and photography.Jack Lang then commissioned her to teach cinema at the école.
She published several novels,psychological in nature and with major female characters. They are set in various eras of the 20th century (e.g. the 1910s forDans la main du diable, the Second World War forLes mal famées).
FollowingDans la main du diable set before World War I in 1914, Anne-Marie Garat pursued in 2008, withL'enfant des ténèbres, her epic depiction of the 20th century, bringing up the period of 1930s and the rise of thetotalitarian dictatorships.
