Françoise Collin

Françoise Collin (8 April 1928, Braine-le-Comte - 1 September 2012) was a Belgian novelist, philosopher and feminist.

She studied in Paris with Jean Hyppolite and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and defended a thesis in literature and philosophy.

She studied women authors including Ingeborg Bachmann, Gertrude Stein and Marieluise Fleisser.

She was one of the first to introduce Hannah Arendt's work into the French philosophical and feminist fields.

She traveled to the United States in 1972, and on her return in 1973 created the first French-language feminist journal, Les Cahiers du Grif.