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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her…
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culture · French-born American author (1903–1977) · writer · autobiographer · diarist · screenwriter · novelist · dancer · also Anaïs Nin, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, Anais Nin, Nin
Born 21 February 1903 · Died 14 January 1977 · Q220018
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Public attention spiked: 4,303 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 1,055, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Quote of the day by Anaïs Nin: ‘Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage’” (Mint).
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Mint: Quote of the day by Anaïs Nin: ‘Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage’
RTBF: La BD "Anaïs Nin, sur la mer des mensonges" de Léonie Bischoff : un succès public et critique avec 100.000 albums vendus
Reigns discovered and rescued an archive of Nin's papers and possessions
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Forbes: Anaïs Nin Returns At Santa Monica’s Georgian Hotel
Le Monde.fr: « Anaïs Nin, vivre sans entraves », sur France 5 : la diariste qui brava les usages et les interdits
The New York Times: In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context
Publishers Weekly: Books by Anais Nin and Complete Book Reviews
rts: L'écrivaine sans tabous Anaïs Nin au coeur d'un roman graphique
Télérama: BD : “Anaïs Nin. Sur la mer des mensonges”, un voyage érotique et libertin dans le Paris des années 1930
Le Soir: Autour d’Anaïs Nin : Il ne suffit pas d’être amoureux pour que le sexe fonctionne
The Guardian: Interview with Anaïs Nin – archive, 1970
Kim Krizan published Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin, an examination of long-buried letters, papers, and original manuscripts Krizan found while doing archival work in Nin's Los Angeles home
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Deadline.com: Anaïs Nin Short Stories Optioned To Hook Up With Film & TV
Jewish Journal: ‘Dance Opera’ celebrates the eternally provocative Anaïs Nin
A previously undiscovered collection of Nin's erotica, Auletris, was published for the first time
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The Guardian: Before Lena Dunham, there was Anaïs Nin – now patron saint of social media
A documentary film directed by Sarah Aspinall called The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin was released, in which Lucy Cohu portrayed Nin's character
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sheknows: Erotica 101: Meet the first woman of erotica, Anaïs Nin
The Daily Beast: ‘Mirages’: Anaïs Nin’s Intimate, Unexpurgated Diaries
Screenwriter and author Kim Krizan published an article in The Huffington Post revealing she had found a previously unpublished love letter written by Gore Vidal to Nin
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Pole commissioned the unexpurgated versions of Nin's journals
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And his ashes were scattered in the same cove
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Died 1977-01-14.
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“The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.”
Though biographer Deirdre Bair alleges that Guiler knew what was happening while Nin was in California but consciously "chose not to know"
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“Opis: o związku z Millerem.”
“Opis: w liściku do Henry’ego Millera.”
“Opis: o związku z pisarzem Henrym Millerem.”
“Opis: notatka po pierwszej nocy z ojcem.”
“The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.”
“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”
“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored. D. H. Lawrence began to give instinct a language, he tried to escape the clinical, the scientific, which only captures what the body feels.”
“Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.”
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.”
“Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.”
“Brak osobowości prowadzi do śmierci uczuć, śmierć uczuć do śmierci pisarstwa i do nadmiaru przemocy, która stała się naczelnym tematem współczesnej literatury: – Zapłaciliśmy wygórowaną cenę za uprawianie kultu wytrzymałości i za lekceważenie wrażliwości. Przemoc zajęła miejsce uczucia.”
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
“Ochoczo poczęły polować na palec, który znikał i pojawiał się w różnych miejscach, gotowe w każdej chwili pochwycić go i ścisnąć w dłoniach. Ale po kilku minutach tym, co łapały raz po raz, nie był już jego palec, lecz penis.”
And in 1976 was presented with a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year award
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Prior to her death, Nin received an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art
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Published The Novel of the Future, which elaborated on her approach to writing and the writing process
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Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her husband, mother and two brothers in her late teens
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Nin had her marriage with Pole annulled due to the legal issues arising from both Guiler and Pole trying to claim her as a dependent on their tax returns, but she and Pole continued to live together as if married until h
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When she published her diaries, a work that is considered her first, given that she began keeping them at the age of 11
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While still married to Guiler, she married Pole at Quartzsite, Arizona, returning with him to live in California
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At age 44, Nin met former actor Rupert Pole in a Manhattan elevator on her way to a party
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Published a collection of short stories, Under a Glass Bell, which was reviewed by Edmund Wilson
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Eight volumes have been published, covering the years 1931 through 1977: Henry and June, Incest, Fire, Nearer the Moon, Mirages, Trapeze, The Diary of Others: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955-1966, and A Joyous Transformation: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-1977.
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In Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, American Hugh Parker Guiler (1898–1985), a banker and artist from Boston, later known as "Ian Hugo", when he became an experimental filmmaker in the late 1940s
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At age sixteen, and according to her diaries, Volume One, 1931–1934, later began working as an artist's model
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Born 1903-02-21.
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