Micheline Attoun

Born in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on 11 October 1936, Attoun's parents were Ashkenazi Jews of Germano-Polish origin who had moved to France in 1933. She grew up listening to her father read her Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, instilling in her a deep love of German literature. She was separated from her husband Lucien Attoun [fr], who she had married in 1960.^[2]

Attoun was co-director of the Théâtre Ouvert [fr] in Paris. In January 2012, Attoun was named as a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Micheline Attoun died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 14 March 2024, at the age of 87.^[3]