Antonina Vallentin
Antonina Vallentin (pseudonym of Antonina Vallentin Luchaire, née Silberstein, born in Lemberg 3 October 1893, dead in Paris 29 August 1957), was a Polish-born biographer, art critic, editor and translator.[1][2]
Life[]
While working for the German Foreign Ministry under Gustav Stresemann, Vallentin met H. G. Wells and invited him to deliver an address on world peace to the Reichstag.[3] In 1929 she married the French politician and author , whose son Jean was held in high esteem with the German administration during the Nazi occupation, which helped Antonina to escape German and Vichy persecution.
Works[]
- (tr.) Mein leben, selbstbiographie. Translated from the English My Life and Loves by Frank Harris
- Stresemann. Translated by Eric Sutton. With a foreword by Albert Einstein. London: Constable & Co., 1931
- Poet in exile: the life of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Harrison Brown. London: Gollancz, 1934.
- Leonardo da Vinci: the tragic pursuit of perfection. Translated by E. W. Dickes from the German manuscript . New York: Viking Press, 1938.
- Mirabeau. Translated by E. W. Dickes from the French Mirabeau avant la Révolution and Mirabeau dans la Révolution. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948.
- This I saw: the life and times of Goya. Translated by Katherine Woods from the French. New York: Random House, 1949.
- H. G. Wells, prophet of our day. Translated by Daphne Woodward. New York: J. Day, 1950.
- Einstein: a biography. Translated by Moura Budberg from the French. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
- El Greco. Translated by Andrew Révai and Robin Chancellor from the French. London: Museum Press, 1954.
- Picasso. Paris: Albin Michel, March 1957 (English translation: London: Cassell, 1963).
References[]
- ^ Anna Rabkin, Antonina Vallentin: A European of Foreign Affairs, PhD Thesis, California State University, East Bay, 2003.
- ^ Jean-Claude Polet (2002). Auteurs européens du premier XXe siècle: 2. Cérémonial pour la mort du sphynx (1940-1958). De Boeck Supérieur. p. 860. ISBN 978-2-8041-3932-2.
- ^ Patrick Parrinder; John S. Partington (2013). The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 30–1. ISBN 978-1-62356-864-1.
`External links[]
- Antonina Valentin, My Marvelous Friend, Dr. Einstein, Maclean's, June 15, 1954.
Categories:
- 1893 births
- 1957 deaths
- Writers from Lviv
- English–German translators
- 20th-century biographers
- Polish writers in French
- German-language writers
- 20th-century translators