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Jeanne Galzy

ジャンヌ・ガルジー

Jannu Garujī

Aliases: Louise Jeanne Baraduc

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1883-00-00 （Montpellier, France）
Died
1977-00-00 （Montpellier, France） age 94
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Religion
Protestant
Residence History
Montpellier → Sèvres → Berck

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Biographer, Teacher
Active Years
1923-1977
Affiliations
Prix Femina jury
Influenced By
Natalie Clifford Barney
Influenced
Marguerite Yourcenar, Hélène de Monferrand

Education

École normale supérieure de jeunes filles
Literature
Degree: agrégation
Country: France
Passed the agrégation exam

Awards

Prix Femina
1923
Work: Les Allongés
Organization: Prix Femina committee
Result: 受賞
Prix Brentano
1930
Work: L'Initiatrice aux mains vides
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Allongés

1923 Regional fiction

Novel about life in a tuberculosis sanatorium.

SufferingHuman condition

Burnt Offering

1929 Lesbian fiction

Explores lesbian love between a teacher and student.

Lesbian desireSolitude
Translations
  • English translation: Burnt Offering

Jeunes filles en serre chaude

1934 Lesbian fiction

Portrait of students at École normale with lesbian themes.

EducationLesbian relationships

Bibliography

  • Les Allongés (1923)
  • La Femme chez les garçons (1924)
  • Main Street (1925)
  • Le Retour dans la vie (1926)
  • Saint Teresa of Avila (1927)
  • Burnt Offering (1929)
  • Demons of Solitude (1931)
  • Jeunes filles en serre chaude (1934)
  • Le Village rêve (1935)
  • Catherine de Médicis (1936)
  • Margo, Queen without a Realm (1939)
  • The Birds of the Islands (1941)
  • Lost Country (1943)
  • Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (1943)
  • The Iron Cage (1946)
  • George Sand (1950)
  • The Foreign Woman (1950)
  • Torn Youth (1952)
  • Celle qui vint d'ailleurs (1958)
  • The Girl (1961)
  • La Surprise de vivre series (1969-1976)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Romans à clefPoeticIntrospective
Recurring Motifs
Lesbian desireSolitudeSufferingEducation

Health

  • Tuberculosis
    1915頃
    Convalesced in Berck, leading to writing Les Allongés.

Legacy

Regional author and pioneer in lesbian fiction, largely forgotten today.

Trivia

  • Buried in Protestant Cemetery, Montpellier.
  • First woman to teach at Montpellier boys' lycée.