 After a self-imposed exile in Italy from May to August 1962, she returned to collaborate with the Algerian magazine "Révolution Africaine" until it stopped being published during the Presidency of Ahmed Ben Bella.After rejection by Les Éditions de Minuit, her cause was supported by Raymond Queneau, which led to Gallimard publishing "Meurtre" in 1964.After joining the Writers' Union in May 1968, and soon after turning up in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet backlash to the Prague Spring, Collobert traveled almost continuously from 1970 to 1976.