Myriam Harry

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Myriam Harry (born Maria Rosette Shapira February 21, 1869 in Jerusalem , Ottoman Empire ; died March 10, 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French writer.

Myriam Harry (before 1913)
Myriam Harry (1904)

Life

Maria Rosette Shapira was one of two daughters of the Jerusalem antiques dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira and the Protestant deaconess Anna Magdalena Rosette Jöckel. Shapira was a Jewish emigrant from Kamianets-Podilskyi who had converted to Christianity . He committed suicide in Rotterdam in 1884 , possibly because he was accused of forging antiques. The mother and her two daughters then moved back to Germany, where Maria attended a lyceum in Berlin .

As a young woman, Shapira went to Paris, where she took the pseudonym Myriam Harry and from 1898 worked as a journalist for the feminist newspaper La Fronde founded by Marguerite Durand . A first collection of articles was printed in 1899 under the title Passage de Bédouins . She stayed in Indochina for the next few years , and in 1902 her novellas La Pagode de l'île flottante appeared in the newspaper Le Journal . Her first novel, Petites Épouses, was also published in 1902 . For a time she became the lover of the writer Joris-Karl Huysmans .

She described her father's life drama in 1904 in the novel La Conquête de Jérusalem , for which she received the first Prix ​​Femina in 1905 , at the time under the name Prix ​​La Vie heureuse , from the hand of Jane Dieulafoy . The prize was specially awarded for her after she was rejected as a woman by the ten-man jury of the Prix ​​Goncourt . At the Prix Femina she was later a member of the jury for many years.

In 1904 she married the sculptor Émile Perrault (1878-1938), son of the painter Léon Bazile Perrault , they later adopted a Syrian child (Le Petit Prince de Syrie) .

In 1906 Harry traveled to Sousse, in the French colony of Tunisia , on behalf of the Le Temps newspaper, to take part in the Thala-Kasserine massacre , in which three colonists were assassinated by locals and others kidnapped and ill-treated. She reported about it in early 1907 in a report with which she triggered angry protests among the French and Italian settlers in Tunisia that she let the other side have a say in her report. In Tunisia she also met the writer Lucie Delarue-Mardrus , with whom she was friends until she died in 1945 and for whom she wrote a posthumous appraisal.

Around 1911 she became secretary to the writer and literary critic Jules Lemaître , who promoted her literary ambitions.

Harry wrote travelogues from her travels to Tunisia, Egypt, the Levant, 1935 to Madagascar, Persia, Indochina and Palestine.

In 1934 Harry was made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur .

During the German occupation of France in World War II, the German occupiers listed her as a “ non-Aryan ” on the “ Otto List ”, which meant that the publishers and booksellers had to remove some of their titles from their range. Nevertheless, she even brought out new publications during this time.

In 1954, she and the organizers of the Prix Femina celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Fonts (selection)

  • Passage de Bédouins , Calmann Lévy, Paris 1899
  • Petites Épouses . Novel. Calmann Lévy, Paris 1902
  • La Conquête de Jérusalem , Calmann Lévy, Paris 1903
  • L'Ile de Volupté . Novel. A. Fayard, Paris 1908
  • Madame Petit-Jardin , A. Fayard, Paris 1909
  • Tunis la blanche , A. Fayard, Paris 1910
  • La divine Chanson , A. Fayard, Paris 1912
  • L'Indo-Chine , les Arts graphiques, Vincennes 1912
  • La Petite Fille de Jérusalem . Foreword by Jules Lemaître. A. Fayard, Paris 1914
    • The Little Girl of Jerusalem: A Child's Novel . Translation Z. Holm. Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1928
  • La Pagode d'Amour , La Renaissance du livre, Paris 1917
  • Siona chez les Barbares . A. Fayard, Paris 1918 (later as Siona à Berlin )
  • Siona à Paris , A. Fayard, Paris 1919
  • Le tendre Cantique de Siona , A. Fayard, Paris 1922
  • Les Amants de Sion , A. Fayard, Paris 1923
  • La Vallée des Rois et des Reines: au pays de Toutankhamon , A. Fayard, Paris 1925
  • La Vie amoureuse de Cléopâtre , Flammarion, Paris 1926
  • Le Mannequin d'Amour , Flammarion, Paris 1927
  • Le Visage de la France. L'Afrique du Nord. Algérie. Tunisie. Maroc . Aux Horizons de France, Paris 1927
  • Le premier meringue . Novel. A. Fayard, Paris 1927
  • La Pagode de l'Île flottante , Portiques, Paris
  • La Nuit de Jérusalem , lithographies de Drouart, Flammarion, Paris 1928
    • The conquest of Jerusalem . Authorized translation Alfred Peuker. Reissner, Dresden 1928
  • Le Petit Prince de Syrie . Novel. A. Fayard, Paris 1929
  • Terre d'Adonis. Au pays des Maronites et des Druses , Flammarion, Paris 1930
  • La Jérusalem retrouvée , Flammarion, Paris 1930
  • Amina, ma Colombe . Novel. Flammarion, Paris 1931
  • La Tunisie enchantée , Flammarion, Paris 1931
  • Trois Ombres. JK Huysmans. Jules Lemaître. Anatole France , Flammarion, Paris 1932
  • Les derniers harems , Flammarion, Paris 1933
  • Cléopâtre , Flammarion, Paris 1934
  • Les Adorateurs de Satan , Flammarion, Paris 1937
  • Ranavalo et son amant blanc, histoire à peine romancée , Flammarion, Paris 1939
  • D'autres Îles de volupté . Illustrations Engelbach. J. Ferenczi, Paris 1940
  • Femmes de Perse, Jardins d'Iran , Flammarion, Paris 1941
  • Iraq , Flammarion, Paris 1941
  • La Princesse Turquoise . Novel. Flammarion, Paris 1942
  • Routes malgaches, le Sud de Madagascar , Plon, Paris 1943
  • Micador , Flammarion, Paris 1944
  • La Vie de Jules Lemaître . Biography. Flammarion, Paris 1946
  • Mon Amie Lucie Delarue-Mardrus , Ariane, Paris 1946
  • Djelaleddine Roumi, Poète et Danseur mystique . Biography. Flammarion, Paris 1947
  • Sous le Signe du Taureau, le Sud de Madagascar , A. de Chabassol, Paris 1947
  • La Pagode du Baiser , Boursiac, Paris 1947
  • Damas, Jardin de l'Islam , J. Ferenczi, Paris 1948
  • Radame, premier Roi de Madagascar , Ferenczi, Paris 1949

literature

  • Harry, Myriam , Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 7, Col. 1349f.
  • Andreas Reichert: Julius Euting, the Pseudo-Moabitica and “La petite fille de Jérusalem.” New finds from an old affair. In: Christl Maier (Ed.): Exegesis on site. Festschrift for Peter Welten on his 65th birthday. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2001, pp. 335–367.
  • Élodie Gaden: "J'irai m'enchanter tristement auprès de mes sœurs islamiques": Les Derniers Harems (1933) de Myriam Harry . In: Sociétés & Représentations , 2012, Vol.34 (2), p.165. ISSN 1262-2966
  • Cécile Chombard-Gaudin: Une orientale à Paris: voyages littéraires de Myriam Harry . Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris 2005, ISBN 9782706818110 .
  • Alexandra König: Littérature féminine? : French novelists of the thirties . M-Press, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89975-512-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juliette M. Rogers: Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development , Penn State Press, 2010, p. 220 online
  2. ^ Charles-André Julien : Colons français et Jeunes Tunisiens (1882-1912) . In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, Volume 54, No. 194, 1967, pp. 87–150, here p. 94ff.
    Impressions tunisiennes. Autour de l'affaire de Thala-Kasserine . In: Le Temps, February 23, 1907.
personal data
SURNAME Harry, Myriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Rosette Shapira (maiden name); Harry-Perrault, Myriam (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1958
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine