Claude Mourthé
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Film director
Claude Mourthé | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 March 1932 |
| Died | 13 March 2024 (aged 92) Agen, France |
| Education | University of Toulouse |
| Occupations | Writer Film director |
Claude Mourthé (6 March 1932 – 13 March 2024) was a French writer, translator and film director.[1]
Born in Cazères on 6 March 1932, Mourthé earned a degree in modern literature from the University of Toulouse. He worked as a radio director from 1959 to 1993 and as a television director for TF1 from 1974 to 1989.[2][3] He was also a producer for France Culture. He was a critic for Le Magazine Littéraire and Le Figaro Magazine.
Mourthé was the author of a dozen books, including Soudain l'éternité, which won him the Prix Chateaubriand et du rayonnement français.[4] He received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1999 for his collection Dit plus bas.
Claude Mourthé died in Agen on 13 March 2024, at the age of 92.[5]