After entering a convent, she returned home, and led a nonconformist life, wearing male clothes, for example, as a sign of her rebellion against social norms.Īfter a marriage of convenience, she left the countryside and went with her two children to Paris, where she obtained a divorce in 1836. Born in 1804 in Paris, she had an austere education at Nohant, her grandmother's country estate. George Sand was the pseudonym of Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
Danish author Karen Blixen (1885-1962, "Out of Africa") wrote under several "noms de plume", such as Tania Blixen and Isak Andersen. Also a Nobel Prize Laureate was Norwegian Sigrid Undset (1882-1940, "Kristin Lavransdatter"). Swedish Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940, "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson") was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. The law is known as "Lex Astrid".įor her commitment to children and animal rights, she received in 1994 the "Right Livelihood", considered an alternative Nobel prize. Her famous statement: "Every pig is entitled to a happy pig life", written in 1988 in an open letter to Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, helped to pass a law which considerably improved the life of farm animals. She was also an active advocate of children's rights and animal welfare. Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) wrote "Pippi Longstocking" and other popular books whose characters, independent, rebellious and nonconformist, differed radically from the traditional childrens literature. Notable French writers were also Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867, "Flowers of Evil") Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880, "Madame Bovary") and Voltaire (1694-1778, "Candide"). Among the chief novels in "La Comédie humaine" are "Eugenie Grandet" (1833) and "Le Père Goriot" (1835). They got married in 1850, three months before the writer died.īalzac's magnum opus is "La Comédie Humaine" (The Human Comedy), a monumental collection of 94 novels and short stories, which contains over 2,000 characters from every social class, and is a brilliant portrait of the French society of his time. They conducted a voluminous and romantic correspondence, and sporadically met, for 18 years. After meeting the first time, Balzac and the Countess agreed to marry after her husband's death. At that time, the Countess was married to an elderly man.
His epistolary liaison with Polish Countess Evelina Hanska began in 1832, when she sent him a letter, expressing her admiration for his work. Although physically unattractive, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) had several famous love affairs.
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