Catherine Lépront (June 1951, Le Creusot – 19 August 2012)[1] was a French novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist.
First of all a liberal nurse (an experience which she described in her narrative Des gens du monde), she was a playwright and literary advisor for the Éditions Gallimard.
All her work is marked by a profound criticism of bourgeois hypocrisy, arbitrary power and obtuse conformity.
She excels at reproducing oral speech, while deepening the subtleties of inner reflections, intrigues with acute psychological tensions, and creating a poetic and lyrical climate that reminds of Virginia Woolf and some Russian writers.
Music, painting, and artistic creation in general played a decisive role here.