Author: Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky (1947 - 2017) was a French actress and writer.

As an actress, she appeared most notably in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and in the films of Jean-Luc Godard La Chinoise (1967) and Week End (1967). She was married to Godard between 1967 and 1979.

After abandoning her movie career in the late 80s, Wiazemsky began writing critically acclaimed fiction and memoirs. Her 1993 novel Canines was awarded with the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, while Une poignée des gens, a novel she published in 1996, won the Grand prix du roman of the Academie française.

Some of her books have been adopted into film. All the Fine Promises of Jean-Paul Civeyrac was based on Hymnes à l'Amour, while Michel Hazanavicius adopted her memoir Une anée apres, an account of her relationship with Godard during the protest movement that paralysed France in 1968.

Her 2007 autobiographical novel, Jeune Fille, is based on her experience starring in Au hasard Balthazar at the age of 18.

On her father's side, Wiazemsky was a descendant of a Russian aristocracy that fled Russia after the October Revolution of 1918--the Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Her mother, Claire Mauriac, was the daughter of writer François Mauriac.

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