Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic. Audry was born in Orange, Vaucluse. She won the Prix Médicis for the autobiographical novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim for The Battle for the Railway and also wrote for her sister Jacqueline. In politics she was a member of the Anti-Stalinist left (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir. She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84. Selected filmography The Misfortunes of Sophie (1946) Web sources 1906 births 1990 deaths People from Orange, Vaucluse Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party politicians Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians Socialist Party (France) politicians French socialist feminists French women novelists Prix Médicis winners French women screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French novelists Anti-Stalinist left 20th-century French screenwriters Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343