Henriette Yvonne Stahl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henriette Yvonne Stahl

Romanian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1900

Place of Birth: Saint-Avold, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 25-May-1984

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Henriette Yvonne Stahl

  • Henriette Yvonne Stahl (January 9, 1900 – May 25/26, 1984) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer and translator. Born in Sankt Avold, Alsace-Lorraine, in the German Empire (now Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of France), she was illegitimate until her parents' marriage in February 1901.
  • Her mother was Blanche Boueve; her father Henri Stahl, a professor and minor writer, was the son of a Bavarian naturalized citizen of Romania.
  • Her brother was the sociologist and ethnographer Henri H.
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  • She took private lessons in lieu of attending high school, following which Stahl studied at the Dramatic Arts Conservatory in Bucharest from 1921 to 1925.
  • Her first published work was the short novel Voica, which appeared in Via?a Româneasca in 1924 and was received with enthusiasm by Garabet Ibraileanu (the magazine's own editor), who proposed it for the Romanian Writers' Society prize.Her first book was also Voica (1929), followed by the 1931 short story collection Matu?a Matilda.
  • She then wrote a series of psychological novels: Steaua robilor (1934), ĂŽntre zi ?i noapte (1942), Marea bucurie (1946) and Fratele meu omul (1965).
  • Near the end of her writing career, Stahl returned to short stories, several of which surpassed the quality of some of her novels, and were collected as Nu ma calca pe umbra (1969).
  • Perfectly fluent in French, she translated a number of her novels into the language and published them in France, meeting with considerable success.
  • She wrote the novel Le Temoin de l'EternitĂ© (1975) directly in French; a Romanian edition appeared in 1995.
  • Her translations into Romanian were Eugène Sue's Mysteries of Paris; Emily BrontĂ«'s Wuthering Heights (1959); John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga (1958-1961, four volumes); Rabindranath Tagore's Gora (1965); Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji (1969) and, in collaboration, several plays by Ivan Turgenev (1958).
  • In 1981, she was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union special prize.
  • By and large, critics did not place Stahl at the forefront of Romanian prose writers.
  • George Calinescu accused her of an "exaggerated feminism", and while recognizing that several characters rang true, believed this insufficient to cover her deficiencies.
  • In Istoria literaturii române, Ion Negoi?escu was enthusiastic about two novels, but kept silent about the rest.Stahl was romantically involved with two fellow writers, Ion Vinea and Petru Dumitriu.
  • After the latter fled Communist Romania, she was arrested, interrogated and detained for a year, threatened with a charge of high treason after admitting she knew of his plans.

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