Catherine Rihoit

Catherine Rihoit (Born in Caen in 1950) is a French writer.

Catherine Rihoit
Born1950 (age 70–71)
Caen, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationWriter
Screenwriter
Biographer

Portrait de Gabriel, her first novel, appeared in 1977. In 1979, she received the Prix des Deux Magots for Le bal des débutantes. Her 1982 novel La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français was made into a film, That Night in Varennes, the same year.

Her writing is often on subjects around Roman Catholicism. She has written biographies of Thérèse of Lisieux (Plon, 1992), Brigitte Bardot (1986), Dalida, and Bernadette Soubirous (2009).

Selected works
  • 1977: Autrement, ailleurs: poems
  • 1978: Le bal des débutantes, Éditions Gallimard, Prix des Deux Magots
  • 1978: Portrait de Gabriel, Gallimard, Prix Contrepoint
  • 1980: Les Abîmes du cœur, Gallimard
  • 1983: Soleil, Gallimard
  • 1986: Brigitte Bardot, un mythe français, Olivier Orban
  • 1988: Retour à Cythère
  • 1992: La petite princesse de Dieu, Plon - (a biography of Thérèse of Lisieux)[1]
  • 1999: La Dame au loup, Stock
  • 2002: La Chambre de feu
  • 2005: Les Maîtres du sens: Bergman, Fassbinder, Lynch, Pasolini, Visconti et quelques autres..., Séguier
  • 2007: Au Bonheur des chats
  • 2009: Dalida: Mon frère tu écriras mes mémoires, Plon - (a biography of Dalida)[2] with collaboration of Orlando
  • 2009: J'ai vu: L'extraordinaire histoire de Bernadette Soubirous, Plon

References
  1. "Editions Plon - Catherine Rihoit". Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 30 Jun 2013.
  2. "Editions Plon - Catherine Rihoit". Retrieved 30 Jun 2013.


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