Biography

Anne Golon was born on December 17, 1921 in Toulon, Var, France. She was a writer and director, known for Angélique (1964), La femme en rouge (1947) and Anjelik ve Deli Ibrahim (1968). She was married to Serge Golon. She died on July 14, 2017 in Versailles, Yvelines, France.

Children: Cyrille (born February 1950), Nadine (born July 1955), Pierre (born April 1957), Marina (born 1961)

As a novelist, she also used the pseudonyms Joëlle Danterne and Anne Servoz.

Daughter of a naval officer, she became a journalist and a novelist. In 1947traveling in Congo as a journalist, she met a geologist named Vsevolod Sergeïvich de Goloubinoff. They fell in love and married and decided to write an historical novel and use the pseudonyms Anne and Serge Golon. Anne would write the text and Serge would do the research and both would sign the book as a team. The first one was published translated in West Germany in 1956 then later in France.