Henriette Jelinek (born in 1923 with Saint-Paul-the-Dax and dead the November 3rd 2007 with Paris), is a French écrivaine .

Psychologist of formation, it obtained in 2005 the Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy for the Destiny of Iouri Voronine .

Its first novel, the multicoloured Cow , discovered by Raymond Queneau, was published at Gallimard in 1963. It published close to about fifteen works, and was coscenarist of the films First voyage of Nadine Trintignant (1979) and the Teenager of Jeanne Moreau (1979). In parallel it was teaching until 1968, date on which it could be devoted exclusively to the literature.

• not to confuse with “Jelinek Hanus” author of Anthology of Czech poetry (1930) and History of the Czech literature of 1850 to 1890 (1933).

• It is not related with Austrian the Elfriede Jelinek.