Catherine Paysan

Annie Hausen
BornAnnie Roulette
(1926-08-04)4 August 1926
Aulaines, Sarthe, France
Died22 April 2020(2020-04-22) (aged 93)
Le Mans, France
Pen nameCatherine Paysan
NationalityFrench
Genrenovel, play, short story, poetry

Annie Hausen (4 August 1926 – 22 April 2020),[1] known by her pen name Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for her lifetime’s writing.

The daughter of Auguste and Marthe Roulette, she was born Annie Roulette[2] in Aulaines in the Sarthe department of France. She attended a lycée for girls in Le Mans from 1938 to 1939 and then the boys' lycée (now the Lycée Montesquieu [fr]) from 1939 to 1945 while the girls' school was being used as a hospital. She taught at a collège in Paris, where she met her future husband, a Hungarian; after her marriage, she retired from teaching and returned to her native village.[3][4]

She published several novels, five autobiographical works, two collections of poetry and two plays, and adapted several of her works for film.[3] In 1977, she received the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for the whole of her work.[5]

Paysan was named an Officier of the Legion of Honour in 2011.[6] She was also named a Knight in the French National Order of Merit.[4]

  1. ^ "L'auteure sarthoise Catherine Paysan est décédée". France Bleu. April 22, 2020.
  2. ^ "Maison natale de Catherine Paysan : fragments littéraires d'une vie". Le Perche (in French). August 25, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Catherine PAYSAN" (PDF). Archives du lycée Montesquieu du Mans (in French).
  4. ^ a b "Judith Magre lira Catherine Paysan au jardin". Ouest France (in French). July 17, 2014.
  5. ^ "Grand Prix SGDL de littérature pour l'ensemble de l'œuvre" (in French). Société des gens de lettres.
  6. ^ "Légion d'honneur : François Fillon décore Catherine Paysan". Le Mans Maville (in French). October 8, 2011.

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