Claude Arnaud

Claude Arnaud (born 24 April 1955 in Paris) is a French writer, essayist, and biographer. He won the 2006 Prix Femina Essai.

Biography

He worked as an offset printing activist and participated in the Workers' Struggle.

From 1977–83 he worked in "Film" monthly, led by Jacques Fieschi. He studied literature at the University of Vincennes. He wrote a play about "the redemptive powers of love," with Bernard Minoret, "Les salons" ("Trade shows"). In 1988, he published a biography of Nicolas Chamfort.

Villa Medicis

He was Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1989 and 1990.

Works

• Bernard Minoret, Claude Arnaud, Les salons, J.C. Lattès, 1985
• Le caméléon: roman, B. Grasset, 1994,
• Le jeu des quatre coins: roman, B. Grasset, 1998,
• ', Gallimard, 2003,
• Qui dit je en nous: une histoire subjective de l'identité, Grasset, 2006,
• Babel 1990: Rome, Saint-Pétersbourg, New York, Gallimard, 2008,
• Qu'as-tu fait de tes frères?, Grasset & Fasquelle, 2010,
• John Richardson, Elizabeth Cowling, Claude Arnaud, Picasso: the Mediterranean years 1945–1962, Rizzoli, 2010,
• Les chemins creux, Editions Graine d'Auteur, 2011,