Catherine David (writer)
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2 December 1949
Catherine David | |
|---|---|
| Born | Catherine Gradwohl 2 December 1949 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Died | 2 January 2023 (aged 73) 14th arrondissement of Paris, France |
Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Education | Sciences Po Swarthmore College Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Partner | Jean-Paul Enthoven |
| Children | 3 (including Raphaël Enthoven) |
Catherine Gradwohl (2 December 1949 – 2 January 2023), better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.
Catherine David is of Jewish Alsatian descent on her father's side and American Catholic on her mother's side.[1]
After her secondary studies, David spent one year at the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Graduated from Sciences Po, 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.
