Banine
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| occupation = Writer
| nationality = Azerbaijani
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Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (Ummulbanu Asadullayeva; 18 December 1905 – 23 October 1992) was a French writer of Azerbaijani descent who wrote under the penname of Banine.[http://www.anl.az/el_ru/b/b_kd.pdf Банин Асадуллаева "Кавказские дни"]
Biography
She was a granddaughter of Azerbaijani millionaire Shamsi Asadullayev and daughter of Azerbaijani businessman and politician Mirza Asadullayev.{{cite web |url=http://www.gender-az.org/index_az.shtml?id_doc=518 |title=Mühacirət övladı |accessdate=2011-11-15}}
Banine emigrated to France in 1923 following her father, a former minister in the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (December 1918-April 1920). She moved to Istanbul where she abandoned her husband whom she had been forced to marry at the age of fifteen and then fled to Paris. There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including Henry de Montherlant, Nikos Kazantzakis, and André Malraux urged her to publish. Banine dedicated her later life to introducing the history and culture of Azerbaijan to France and Europe. Her most famous writings are Days in the Causasus and Parisian Days.
Banine, who was the friend of the German writer Ernst Jünger and Russian Ivan Bunin, tells about her conversion to Catholicism in her books.{{Cite web|title=Montherlant et l'écrivain Banine (1905-1992) convertie au catholicisme, par Henri de Meeûs|url=https://www.montherlant.be/article-047-banine.html|access-date=2022-02-21|website=www.montherlant.be}}
Banine published several articles about the situation in Azerbaijan.{{Cite news |date=1992-11-20 |title=La mort de Banine - Née à Bakou, la romancière de " Jours caucasiens " était installée en France depuis les années 20 |work=Le Monde |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1992/11/20/la-mort-de-banine-nee-a-bakou-la-romanciere-de-jours-caucasiens-etait-installee-en-france-depuis-les-annees-20_3928914_1819218.html |access-date=2023-02-13}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} She died in October 1992. Her obituary in the newspaper Le Figaro called her "one of those personages of La vie romanesque who traverse a century, attracting like a lodestone all the singular figures of their times".William Pfaff. The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia. {{ISBN|978-0-684-80907-6}}
Major works
- Nami (Nami), Gallimard, 1942.
- Days in the Caucasus (Jours caucasiens), Julliard, 1946.
- Parisian Days (Jours parisiens), Julliard, 1947, Gris Banal, 2003.
- Meetings with Ernst Jünger (Rencontres avec Ernst Jünger), Julliard, 1951.
- I chose opium (J'ai choisi l'opium), Stock, 1959.
- After (Après), Stock, 1962.
- Foreign France (La France étrangère), S.O.S Desclée de Brouwer, 1968.
- The call of the last chance (L'appel de la dernière chance), S.O.S, 1971.
- Portrait of Ernst Jünger: letters, texts, meetings (Portrait d'Ernst Jünger : lettres, textes, rencontres), La Table Ronde, 1971.
- Ernst Jünger multiple faces (Ernst Jünger aux faces multiples), Lausanne, éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 1989.
- What Mary told me: the tale of Mary's servant (Ce que Marie m’a raconté : le dit de la Servante de Marie), Cahier Bleus, 1991.
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Category:French people of Azerbaijani descent
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Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Shia Islam
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Category:Pseudonymous women writers