Monique Lange

Monique Lange was a novelist, screenwriter, and editor. She was born into a family of intellectuals, which included philosophers Henri Bergson and Emmanuel Berl. A lifelong writer and lover of words, she worked as an editor for "La revue de cin ma "and the famous literary journal "Les Temps modernes". She wrote screenplays for Roberto Rossellini ("Vanina Vanini"), Henri-Georges Clouzot ("La prisonni re"), and Vittorio De Seta ("L invitata"), among many others. Her novels include "Catfish, The...See more

Monique Lange was a novelist, screenwriter, and editor. She was born into a family of intellectuals, which included philosophers Henri Bergson and Emmanuel Berl. A lifelong writer and lover of words, she worked as an editor for "La revue de cin ma "and the famous literary journal "Les Temps modernes". She wrote screenplays for Roberto Rossellini ("Vanina Vanini"), Henri-Georges Clouzot ("La prisonni re"), and Vittorio De Seta ("L invitata"), among many others. Her novels include "Catfish, The Plane Trees", and "The Bathing Huts", and in addition to her biography of Piaf she wrote a biography of Jean Cocteau. She died in 1996. See less