Yvonne Baby Explained
| Yvonne Baby |
| Birth Date: | 1931 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Le Touquet, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Journalist, novelist |
Yvonne Baby (18 August 1931 – 3 August 2022) was a French journalist, novelist, and critic.[1]
Life and career
Yvonne was the daughter of historian and political activist and Ruta Assia, and the stepdaughter of writer and film historian Georges Sadoul.[2]
A journalist and writer, Baby directed the cultural service of the newspaper Le Monde from 1970 to 1985, after which she became a film critic.[3] In 1975, she traveled to Copenhagen to interview Paul Pavlowitch on the mystery of Émile Ajar. She was vice-president of the jury of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
Yvonne Baby died on 3 August 2022, at the age of 90.[1]
Works
- (1967)
- Le Jour et la Nuit (1974)
- Kilroy (1980)
- La Vie retrouvée (1992)
- Ma mère et le ciel très vite (1998)
- Gris paradis (2003)
- La Femme du mur (2004)
- Quinze hommes splendides (2008)[4]
- Le Troisième Ciel (2010)
- À l'encre bleu nuit (2014)
- Nirvanah (2016)
Notes and References
- News: Lindon. Mathieu. 3 August 2022. Mort de la journaliste Yvonne Baby, figure du monde culturel. French. Libération. 4 August 2022.
- Web site: Lettre du 12 mars 1948 à sa Mère. Histoire de la famille Sadoul. French.
- Book: Baby, Yvonne (1929–....). BnF Catalogue général. French.
- Web site: Ces hommes splendides.. Le blog de Serge Toubiana. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081117205929/http://blog.cinematheque.fr/?p=56. 17 November 2008.
