Nita Rousseau (1944 – 28 July 2003, Paris) was a French journalist and woman of letters. The daughter of an officer of the troupes coloniales, Nita Rousseau grew up in Indochina and Africa. She was a documentalist at '' Le Nouvel Observateur'', before becoming a cultural journalist and a literary and theatrical critic from 1971. Her first novel, ''Les Iris bleus'', received the

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in 1992. ''L'Italienne'' and ''La Pluie sur la mer'' were devoted to the world of theater. She portrayed her father in her latest book, ''Un père si mystérieux''.

Works

*1991: ''Un colossal enfant'', conversations with Marcel Maréchal, Actes Sud, *1992: ''Les Iris bleus'',

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, *1993: ''L'Italienne'', éditions Flammarion, *1998: ''La Pluie sur la mer'', éditions Flammarion, *2001: ''Un père si mystérieux'', Plon,

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''Sauf moi, papa''
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'' (4 April 2001) 1944 births 20th-century French writers 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French writers French women journalists French literary critics French women critics Women literary critics 20th-century French journalists Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients 2003 deaths 21st-century French women writers {{France-writer-stub