Marie-Claude Sandrin

French writer (born 1937)

Marie-Claude Sandrin (born December 1937, in Bordeaux) is a French writer.

Biography

Sandrin won the prix Cazes in 1967 for her first novel, La Forteresse de boue, published by Buchet/Chastel [fr].^[1]^[2] Two other novels will be published by the same house: La Cendre d’un été (1971) and L’homme à chagrin (1980).

Several critics have highlighted relationships with Chateaubriand, Mauriac, Gracq, whom Marie-Claude Sandrin considers to be her "family".

Marie-Claude Sandrin also held a career in journalism and worked for twenty years in the Méridional, as well as in numerous magazines.

Works

Novels

1967: La Forteresse de boue, Buchet/Chastel
1971: La Cendre d’un été, Buchet/Chastel
1980: L’Homme à chagrin, Buchet/Chastel

Essays

1980: Salut Baby, dialogue between a mother and her teenage daughter, Groupe De Boeck [fr].^[3]
1991: Champions de Dieu, recueil de témoignages de « rencontres avec Dieu » , Arléa
1995: Mon compagnon de misère, testimony collected from a former alcoholic, Éditions n°1