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Christine Arnothy (born 1930 in Budapest, Hungary) is a French writer. She has written numerous books, including J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir (1955) ( I am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die'). It is a book following her life and escape from Budapest during the Second World War.

She left Hungary, crossing the border with her parents. On her arrival in France, she had only one thing: a journal of her life in Budapest.

Arnothy eventually married Claude Bellanger (1909—1978).

Her book J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir was translated into English. I Am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die is a personal record of her experience as a teenager during the 1945 siege of Budapest. It was reviewed in Harper's Magazine in 1956. Good reviews also from The Daily Express,The New York Times, Herald Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Kirkus, L.A. Herald Express, Chicago Sunday Tribune and The Times There's an ulterior sequel, It Is Not So Easy to Live (but this second part doesn't come from her journal but from her memory);where she chronicles her escape via Vienna to Paris,where she eventually settled and married.

She also wrote a couple of detective stories under the pseudonym William Dickinson and a lot of books. No one work has been so successful as J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir, which has been considered by some authors (i.e.: Sandor MaraiInterview in San Francisco:

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