Catherine David | |
Birth Name: | Catherine Gradwohl |
Birth Date: | 2 December 1949 |
Birth Place: | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
Death Place: | 14th arrondissement of Paris, France |
Resting Place: | Montmartre Cemetery |
Spouse: | Jean-Paul Enthoven |
Children: | 3 (including Raphaël Enthoven) |
Education: | Sciences Po Swarthmore College Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Occupation: | Writer |
Catherine Gradwohl (2 December 1949 – 2 January 2023), better known as Catherine David, was a Franco-American novelist, essayist and literary critic.
After her secondary studies, Catherine David spent one year at the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Graduated from Sciences Po, she also holds a degree in history from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
With philosopher Jean-Paul Enthoven, she had a son, Raphaël, agrégé in philosophy and audiovisual chronicler.
After she worked with several publishing houses (Gallimard, Jean-Jacques Pauvert), she turned to literary criticism and journalism at the Nouvel Observateur in the cultural field – literature, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, human sciences, history of sciences, prehistory, astrophysics.
In 1984, she won the Prix Contrepoint for her first novel, L'Océan miniature.
David died in Paris on 2 January 2023, at the age of 73.[1]