13 Facts About Catherine Belkhodja

Catherine Belkhodja was born on 15 April 1955 and is a French artist, actress and film director.

On 15 April 1955, Belkhodja was born in Paris, France, to an Algerian father and a French mother.

Catherine Belkhodja lived and studied in Algiers where she wrote her first short stories.

Catherine Belkhodja went on studying theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology of the Maghreb.

Catherine Belkhodja graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then reading architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture.

Catherine Belkhodja later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne University, prior to leaving for Belgium to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt to work with Hassan Fathy on earth architecture.

Catherine Belkhodja was the central character in Chris Marker's Silent Movie and documentary Level Five.

Catherine Belkhodja then left for Algeria to make her first documentary Reflets perdus du miroir, the story of twin sisters who meet after a long separation.

Catherine Belkhodja published her first newspaper articles in Le Sauvage and Sans frontieres and wrote her first script on her return from Egypt.

Catherine Belkhodja has worked as a reporter for the Gamma Agency, has collaborated with such magazines as L'autre journal and La legende du siecle, has founded a new magazine specialising in Asian issues and collaborated with gastronomy, tourism and travel magazines.

Catherine Belkhodja has refocused her activities on writing and regularly publishes her texts in literary reviews such as Alter texto, Hakai, Poete, Carquois, les Cahiers de Poesie and Gong.

Catherine Belkhodja founded Karedas, a company dedicated to film production and publishing, and launched a kaiseki collection dedicated to haiku.

Catherine Belkhodja is currently running a haiku writing workshop on the Psychologies magazine website, in which she has presented keys to haiku writing.