Christiane Singer

Christiane Singer, married name Christiane Thurn-Valsassina (23 March 1943, in Marseille – 4 April 2007, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer, essayist and novelist.

Biography Her father was of Hungarian origin and her mother was half Russian and half Czech. Because of the persecution of the Jews, her parents fled Hungary, then Austria, and settled in Paris, France, in 1935. She was born eight years later, in 1943, in Marseille.

She attended high school and the Conservatory of Theatre and Dramatic Arts in Marseille and then went on to study literature at the University of Aix-en-Provence, where she obtained a Doctorate of Modern Literature.

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In September 2006, when doctors announced that she had six months left to live as a result of cancer, she wrote a diary in her last months, which was published under the title Derniers fragments d'un long voyage.

Distinctions 1979: Prix des libraires for La Mort viennoise. 1982: Prix Alice-Louis Barthou de l'Académie française for La Guerre des filles.

Work Novels 1965: Les Cahiers d'une hypocrite, Albin Michel 1965: Vie et mort du beau Frou, Albin Michel 1976: Chronique tendre des jours amers, Albin Michel 1978: La Mort viennoise, Albin Michel, prix des libraires 1979 1981: La Guerre des filles, Albin Michel, prix Alice-Louis Barthou of the Académie française. 1982 1981: Histoire d'âme, Albin Michel, reissued 2001 prix Albert Camus 1989 1996: Rastenberg, Albin Michel 2002: Les Sept Nuits de la reine, Albin Michel 2006: Seul ce qui brûle, Albin Michel, Prix ALEF 2007.

Essays 1983: Les Âges de la vie, Albin Michel 1992: Une passion. Entre ciel et chair, Albin Michel, 1993. 1996: Du bon usage des crises, Albin Michel 2000: Éloge du mariage, de l'engagement et autres folies, Albin Michel (prix Anna de Noailles de l'Académie française. 2001: Où cours-tu, Ne sais-tu pas que le ciel est en toi ?, Albin Michel 2005: N'oublie pas les chevaux écumants du passé, Albin Michel 2007: Derniers fragments d'un long voyage, Albin Michel, essay / narrative / diary

Collective 2000: La Quête du sens, collectif, Albin Michel, reissued 2004 with Khaled cheikh Bentounès, Marie de Hennezel, , Stan Rougier 2002: Le Grand Livre de la tendresse, Albin Michel,, collective, under the direction of Gérald Pagès, with participations by Boris Cyrulnik, Marie de Hennezel, Dr. Gérard Leleu, Jean-pierre Relier, Stan Rougier, Dr. Michèle Salamagne, Jacques Salomé, , Christiane Singer