Catherine Rihoit
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Catherine Rihoit (Born in Caen in 1950) is a French woman of letters.
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.
She has written several biographies - of Thérèse of Lisieux (Plon, 1992), of Brigitte Bardot (1986), of Dalida, and of Bernadette Soubirous (2009).
- Selected Works
- Autrement, ailleurs: poèmes, 1977
- Le bal des débutantes, Gallimard, 1978, Prix des Deux Magots
- Les Abîmes du cœur, Gallimard, 1980
- Soleil, Gallimard, 1983
- Brigitte Bardot, un mythe français, Olivier Orban, 1986
- Retour à Cythère, 1988
- La petite princesse de Dieu, Plon[1], 1992 - (a biography of Thérèse of Lisieux)
- La Dame au loup, Stock, 1999
- La Chambre de feu, 2002
- Les Maîtres du sens: Bergman, Fassbinder, Lynch, Pasolini, Visconti et quelques autres..., Séguier, 2005
- Au Bonheur des chats, 2007
- J'ai vu: L'extraordinaire histoire de Bernadette Soubirous, Plon, 2009.