Claude B. Levenson (2 August 1938 – 13 December 2010) was a French journalist, orientalist, Tibetologist, translator and writer who authored approximately twenty-five books on the subjects of Buddhism, Burma and Tibet. She contributed to the newspapers Le Monde, L'Obs, Politique internationale, Le Temps, Geo, 24 heures and Libération. Levenson was a member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and worked as a translator for the Dalai Lama. Levenson was born in Paris on 2 August 1938. She was the daughter of a Jew from Bessarabia who would become a resistance fighter during the Second World War when France was under occupation but who was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1941. Levenson's mother would also become a resistance fighter. Levenson attended the public school Lycée et collège Victor-Duruy in Paris, and in the 1950s, she studied Russian, Sanskrit and several Oriental languages, such as Hindi and Persian at Moscow State University while she became acquainted with Oriental civizilations. More information...
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