Claire Etcherelli, born January 11, 1931 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died March 5, 2023 in Paris 13th, is a French writer. She was the recipient of the Femina Prize in 1967 for her first novel, “Élise or real life”. Claire Etcherelli was born in Bordeaux on January 11, 1931. Her docker father, who was drafted, was then detained in a prison camp. She then went to live with her grandfather in the Basque Country. She became an orphan at the age of 11. Having become a ward of the Nation, and therefor ...