Zoya Oldenburg ( March 31, 1916 - November 8, 2002 ) - French writer, specialist in the Medieval History of France, the Crusades and the heresies of the Cathars .
| Zoe Oldenburg | |
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| Zoya Sergeevna Oldenburg | |
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| Date of Birth | March 31, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | Petrograd , Russian empire |
| Date of death | November 8, 2002 (86 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire →  France |
| Occupation | medieval historian, writer |
| Years of creativity | 1946-1992 |
| Genre | historical novel |
| Language of Works | French |
| Awards | Femin Award ( 1953 ) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 Bibliography
- 4 Publications
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 Sources
Biography
The daughter of journalist Sergei Sergeyevich Oldenburg and mathematician Ada Dmitrievna Starynkevich (1892-1946), the granddaughter of the orientalist academician Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg .
In 1925, she emigrated to Paris with her family. In 1934 she graduated from the Moliere Lyceum, after which she studied history and literature at the Sorbonne , was engaged in drawing at the Ranson Academy . In 1938 she completed a theology course in England [1] . During World War II, she made a living by manually painting handkerchiefs.
Her father encouraged Zoina to write, and in 1946 she completed her first novel, Argiles et cendres . Although Zoya wrote her first works in Russian, becoming an adult, she wrote only in French [2] . In 1953 she won the Femin Prize for the novel "Cornerstone" ( French La Pierre Angulaire ). In 1980, she wrote the novel La joie-souffrance , dedicated to the life of Russian emigration in France.
Family
In 1948 she married Heinrik Idalovichi [3] , they had two children: Olaf and Maria Agata [4] .
Bibliography
- Argile et Cendres (1946), in the English translation of The World is Not Enough .
- La Pierre Angulaire (1953), in the English translation of The Cornerstone .
- Réveillés de la vie (1956).
- Les irréductibles: roman (1958).
- Le Bûcher de Montségur (1959), non-fiction, in the English translation of Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade , in Russian - Bonfire Monsegyur .
- Les Brûlés (1960), in the English translation of Destiny of Fire .
- Les Cités Charnelles: ou, l'Histoire de Roger de Montbrun: roman (1961), in the English translation of Cities of the flesh: or, The story of Roger de Montbrun .
- Les Croisades (1965), non-fiction, in the English translation of The Crusades .
- Catherine de Russie (1966), in the English translation of Catherine the Great .
- La Joie des Pauvres (1970), in the English translation of The Heirs of the Kingdom .
- Saint Bernard. Textes de Saint Bernard, Abélard, Pierre le Vénérable, Geoffroi de Clairvaux, Bérenger de Poitiers, Bossuet (1970).
- Que vous a donc fait Israël? (1974).
- Visages d'un Autoportrait (1977).
- La joie-souffrance (1980).
- Le Procès du Rêve (1982).
- L'eveque et la vieille dame, ou, La belle-mere de Peytavi Borsier: Pièce en dix tableaux et un prologue (1983)
- Que nous est Hécube ?, ou, Un plaidoyer pour l'humain: essai (1984)
- Les amours égarées: roman (1987).
- Déguisements: nouvelles (1989).
- Aliénor: pièce en quatre tableaux (1992)
Publications
- Oldenburg Z.S. Bonfire of Montsegur. History of the Albiguian Crusades. - St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2001 .-- 416 p. - ISBN 5-89329-369-X .
Notes
- ↑ Dictionnaire littéraire ... October 2010
- ↑ Lucille Frackman Becker, Twentieth-Century French Women Novelists (Twayne Publishers, 1989: ISBN 0-8057-8251-6 ), p. 55.
- ↑ Cf. Wilson, p.936
- ↑ European Biographical Directory , vol. 2 (Editions Database, 1991), p. 1627.
Literature
- Steinberg, Theodore L. , “The Use and Abuse of Medieval History: Four Contemporary Novelists and the First Crusade”, Studies in Medievalism , II.1 (Fall 1982), pp. 77–93.
- Wilson, Katharina M. , (editor), An Encyclopedia of continental women writers , New York: Garland Pub., 1991. ISBN 0-8240-8547-7 . Cf. entry for Zoé Oldenbourg, Volume 1, pp. 935-937.
Sources
- Russian Abroad in France 1919-2000. L. Mnukhin, M. Avril, V. Losskaya. Moscow, 2008. (unavailable link)
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century: O to Z, Volume 3 (F. Ungar, 1971: ISBN 0-8044-3094-2 ), p. eleven.
- Histoires littéraires: Revue trimestrielle consacrée à la littérature française des XIXème et XXème siècles 4 / 13-14 (2003): 124.
- Christiane P. Makward and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage, Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française (KARTHALA Editions, 1996: ISBN 2-86537-676-1 ), p. 448.