Known For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 10, 1939
Age
87
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Popularity
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Catherine Clément
Writing
Biography
Catherine Clément (born 10 February 1939) is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She lived many years overseas, as her husband, André Lewin (1934–2012), was a diplomat who was France's Ambassador to India, Austria, G…
