Person
Banine
The granddaughter of oil millionaires who wrote in French from Paris.
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banin.tut.az
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In brief
Umm-el-Banu Asadullayeva was born in Baku in 1905. After the revolution and exile she lived in Paris and wrote in French as Banine.
Her best-known book, Caucasian Days, recalls oil-boom Baku, her family, childhood and a lost world.
On the site
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01
Books
Editions and translations
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Oil-boom Baku
Family, houses, fortune
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Exile
Paris and its literary circles
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Memory
Her traces in Baku
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