Anne-Marie Garat is a French novelist. She won the Prix Femina for her novel Aden in 1992 and the prix Marguerite Audoux for her novel Les mal fam�es. Studying literature in Bordeaux, she then obtained a DEA in cinema at the universit� de Paris I. She lived in Paris, where she taught cinema and photography. Jack Lang then commissioned her to teach cinema at the �cole. She has published several novels, psychological in nature and with major female characters. They are set in various eras of the 20th century. Following Dans la main du diable set before World War I in 1914, Anne-Marie Garat pursued in 2008, with L'enfant des t�n�bres, her epic depiction of the 20th century, bringing up the period of 1930s and the rise of the totalitarian dictatorships. 

January 1st, 1946 in Bordeaux (Age 78)