Annie Cohen-Solal
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Annie Cohen-Solal is a French academic, writer, historian, and biographer. Born in pre-independence Algeria, she is part of the Jewish diaspora that left that country for France during the Algerian War of Independence. Her most famous work is a biography of Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre: A Life, which has been translated into sixteen languages.[1] The French edition of her book about the rise of American artists from the 19th to the 20th century, Un jour ils auront des peintres (English title: Painting American), was awarded the Prix Bernier by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
From 1989 to 1993, Cohen-Solal served as Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy in the United States.[2] She has taught at New York University, the University of Berlin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Université de Paris XIII. Currently, Cohen-Solal heads the American studies program at the Université de Caen and teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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