Françoise-Anne Huré

Anne Huré (born Françoise-Anne Huré; 25 October 1918 - presumed dead) was a French writer who authored eight novels, the first of which, Les Deux moniales ("The Two Nuns"), was considered for the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1962.

Life and career Anne Huré was born in Paris on 25 October 1918. She studied theology, including classical Greek and Latin, at a Benedictine abbey in Leuven, Belgium, for three years. This time at the monastery she would go on to describe in multiple instances as "unhappy ... but useful and informative".

Huré was frequently in trouble with the police, a situation that would cause controversy during her career as a writer. In 1954, she was sentenced by the court to seven years' incarceration and was barred from visiting Paris for life for theft and falsification of a check. Huré spent her time in prison working on five novels, all of which were set to be published by the publishing house Julliard. (The Two Nuns), was published to critical and commercial success. It was selected for consideration by the Prix Goncourt jury. However, before the jury made its decision, Huré was arrested in Paris on 10 May 1962, after she was recognized by one Madame Dupeyroux of Toulouse following an appearance on the literary television program Lectures pour tous. A few weeks later, on July 27, in Toulouse, Anne Huré was found guilty of attempted theft. She was sentenced to two months in prison and a 1,000-franc fine. Later that same year, it was reported that Huré attempted to take her own life.

In 1963, 1969, and 1971 she was arrested for fraud, theft, check forgery, and other petty crimes.

In 1963, Julliard published Anne Huré's autobiographical novel En prison ("In Prison").

After the ongoing controversy surrounding the author, Julliard did not publish her other works.

Jennifer Waelti Walters, professor emerita of French and women's studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, noted in her book, Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novels, that Huré's first three novels all deal with possibly romantic relationships between two female protagonists and the inability to act on those feelings.

Works

Les Deux Moniales, Paris: Julliard, 1962. Entretiens avec Monsieur Renan, Paris: Julliard, 1962. En Prison, Paris: Julliard, 1963. Le Péché sans merci, Meaux: Plon, 1964. Descente en enfer, Meaux: Plon, 1966. Le Haut Chemin, Meaux: Plon, 1966. Les Vendages, Meaux: Plon, 1968. Tendresses d'été (short story collection), Meaux: Plon, 1968.