Banine
Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff | |
---|---|
250px | |
Born | Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) |
18 December 1905
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris, France |
Pen name | Banine |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Azerbaijani |
Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (Umm El-Banu Äsâdullayeva) (18 December 1905 – 23 October 1992) was a French writer of Azerbaijani descent - a granddaughter of famous Azerbaijani millionaire Musa Nagiyev and daughter of Azerbaijani businessman and politician Mirza Asadullayev.[1] She wrote under the penname of Banine.
Banine emigrated to France in 1923 following her father, a former minister in the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (dec. 1918-April 1920). She moved to Istanbul where she abandoned her husband whom she had been forced to marry at the age of fifteen and then fled to Paris. There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including Montherlant, Kazantzakis, and Malraux urged her to publish. Banine dedicated her later life to introducing the history and culture of Azerbaijan to France and Europe. Her most famous writings are "Caucasian days" and "Parisian days". Banine, who was the friend of the German writer Ernst Jünger and Russian Ivan Bunin, tells about her conversion to Catholicism in her books.
Before her death, Banin published several articles about the situation in Azerbaijan.[citation needed] She died in October 1992. Her obituary in the newspaper Le Figaro called her "one of those personages of La vie romanesque who traverse a century, attracting like a lodestone all the singular figures of their times".[2]
Major works
- Nami (Nami), Gallimard, 1942.
- Caucasian days (Jours caucasiens), Julliard, 1946.
- Parisian days (Jours parisiens), Julliard, 1947, Gris Banal, 2003.
- Meetings with Ernst Jünger (Rencontres avec Ernst Jünger), Julliard, 1951.
- I chose opium (J'ai choisi l'opium), Stock, 1959.
- After (Après), Stock, 1962.
- Foreign France (La France étrangère), S.O.S Desclée de Brouwer, 1968.
- The call of the last chance (L'appel de la dernière chance), S.O.S, 1971.
- Portrait of Ernst Jünger: letters, texts, meetings (Portrait d'Ernst Jünger : lettres, textes, rencontres), La Table Ronde, 1971.
- Ernst Jünger multiple faces (Ernst Jünger aux faces multiples), Lausanne, éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 1989.
- What Marry told me: the say of the Servant Mary (Ce que Marie m’a raconté : le dit de la Servante Marie), Cahier Bleus, 1991.
Footnotes
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ William Pfaff. The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia. ISBN 978-0-684-80907-6
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from May 2010
- 1905 births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century French writers
- French people of Azerbaijani descent
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Shia Islam
- Azerbaijani novelists
- Azerbaijani women writers
- Azerbaijani Christians
- Azerbaijani former Shia Muslims
- 20th-century women writers
- Azerbaijani people stubs
- French writer stubs