Catherine David (writer)

Catherine Gradwohl (2 December 1949 – 2 January 2023), better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.

not to be confused with the French art historian Catherine David
Catherine David
Born
Catherine Gradwohl

(1949-12-02)2 December 1949
Paris, France
Died2 January 2023(2023-01-02) (aged 73)
EducationSciences Po
Swarthmore College
OccupationWriter
SpouseJean-Paul Enthoven
ChildrenRaphaël Enthoven

Life and career

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.

David died on 2 January 2023, at the age of 73.[1]

Works

In collaboration

References
  1. "Carla Bruni en deuil : elle annonce la mort de la grand-mère de son fils Aurélien". Closer. 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.


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