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Author of novels and short stories
- Anais Nin, French-born author of novels and short stories whose literary reputation rests on the eight published volumes of her personal diaries. Her writing shows the influence of the Surrealist movement and her study of psychoanalysis under Otto Rank.
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (/ ˌ æ n aɪ ˈ iː s ˈ n iː n / AN-eye-EESS NEEN, French: [ana.is nin]; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
Jun 7, 2024 · Anais Nin, French-born author of novels and short stories whose literary reputation rests on the eight published volumes of her personal diaries. Her writing shows the influence of the Surrealist movement and her study of psychoanalysis under Otto Rank.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 25, 2022 · Nin and her circle also became famous for writing erotica, which a mysterious “collector” paid for by the page. Her stories were published in the anthologies Little Birds, Delta of Venus, and...
Anais Nin was a 20th century diarist. She began what became her life-long work of art in 1914 at the age of eleven and kept writing until her death 63 years later in 1977.
- “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin.
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
- “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anais Nin.
- “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Dec 16, 2018 · Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) embodied the practice of writing as a grand passion and a path to delving deeply into the self. In this sense, she foreshadowed the immediacy of today’s world of self-revelatory memoir. She was a splendid and prolific essayist as well.
Novels of known Cuban-American writer Anaïs Nin include Winter of Artifice (1939), and she published The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931-1974 from published 1966 to 1981. This passionate eroticist and short story gained international fame with her journals.
