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Christine Arnothy

クリスティーヌ・アルノティ

Kurisutīnu Aronoti

Aliases: イレーヌ・コヴァチ・デ・センドレ

Pen Names: William Dickinson（Pseudonym for detective stories）

Profile

Gender: Female
Born: 1930-11-20 （Budapest）
Died: 2015-10-06 age 84
Nationality: Hungarian, French
Languages: French, Hungarian
Residence History: Budapest (childhood) → Austria (refugee 1948) → Paris, France

Career

Occupations: writer
Active Years: 1954-2015

Education

Institution	Faculty	Department	Degree	Period	Country
Sorbonne	—	Faculty of Letters	—	—	France

Sorbonne

Faculty of Letters

Country: France

Studied in Paris

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
1954	Grand Prix Verité	J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir	—	—	受賞
1976	Prix de la nouvelle de l'Académie Française	Le Cavalier Mongol	—	Académie Française	受賞

Grand Prix Verité

1954

Work: J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir

Result: 受賞

Prix de la nouvelle de l'Académie Française

1976

Work: Le Cavalier Mongol

Organization: Académie Française

Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Prix Interallié (Interallié Prize) 1 appearances

Edition 47 (1980) Winner

Works

Major Works

J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir

1954 Memoir

Based on her diary during the 1945 Siege of Budapest

warsurvivalyouth

Dieu est en retard

1955 Novel

Travels of a stateless young woman without a passport

statelessnesswandering

Il n'est pas si facile de vivre

1957 Novel

Continuation of travels of a stateless young woman

statelessnesswandering

Le Cardinal Prisonnier

1962 Novel

La Saison des Américains

1964 Novel

Le Cavalier Mongol

1976 Short story

Style & Themes

Literary Style: Compassionate, economical, reticent style
Recurring Motifs: War horror and humanityyouth amid brutality

Legacy

Her debut memoir based on Budapest siege diary was a major success, reviewed positively in major publications.

Trivia

Wrote diary by candlelight
Was stateless for a time
Married newspaper publisher Claude Bellanger, had two sons Pierre and Francois