Claude Sarraute

Claude Sarraute 24 July 1927 20 June 2023 was a French writer and journalist and columnist for Le Monde She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show Les Grosses Têtes between 19841995 and from 2014 until her death She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist Nathalie Sarraute and lawyer Raymond Sarraute Her first marriage with American journalist Stanley Karnow 19252013 lasted from 1948 to 1955 She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara 19272018 son of Swedish artist Greta Knutson and Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara They had two sons Laurent and Martin and divorced in 1966 In 1967 she was married to JeanFrançois Revel 19242006 philosopher writer and member of the Académie Française from 1998 on They had two children a daughter Véronique born 1968 and a son Nicolas Revel born 1966 the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Jean Castex During the war her mother and two sisters fled the capital because of the antiJewish laws of the Nazicollaborating Vichy France but Claude and her father stayed in her native Paris After the war she worked for four years as an actress mainly playing minor roles in avantgarde pieces by contemporaries like Romain Weingarten until she started working for Le Monde in the early 1950s She died in the 4th arrondissement of Paris at the age of 95 Source Article Claude Sarraute from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30