Titaÿna
Titaÿna (real name Élisabeth Sauvy, 22 November 1897 — 16 October 1966) was a French journalist and writer. She is considered one of the most significant female reporters in the first half of the 20th century.[1]
Biography[edit]
Sauvy was born in 1897 in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho in southern France. She was an older sister of the sociologist Alfred Sauvy.[1] She moved to Paris, got married and very quickly divorced. She also started writing.[2] The origin of the penname Titaÿna, which Sauvy was using, is unclear, though it is often hypothesized to originate from Catalan legends.[1]
Between 1925 and 1939, Titaÿna was traveling around the world, mainly in Oceania, and at the same time she was reporting for Paris-soir. She also published a number of books based on her materials.[3] Titaÿna received a license to fly an airplane, and is sometimes considered an aviation pioneer.[1][3]
Titaÿna met and interviewed, among others, Adolf Hitler (in 1936), Benito Mussolini, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and Hubert Lyautey.[1][2] However, at the end of the 1930s, her journalist career was already on the decline. After the German occupation of France in 1940 she took a collaborationalist stance. She was indeed accused in collaboration and after the war was imprisoned for about a year[2] and left for the United States, where she lived until her death.[1] Titaÿna died in 1966 in San Francisco.
In 1994, journalist Benoît Heimermann wrote a book about Titaÿna. The second edition was published in 2011.
Books[edit]
- Simplement, Paris, Ernest Flammarion (1923).
- La bête cabrée, Paris, Aux Éditeurs associés - Les Éditions du Monde moderne, collection "le roman nouveau" (1925)m preface by Pierre Mac-Orlan.
- Mon tour du monde, Paris, Louis Querelle (1928).
- Voyage autour de ma maîtresse, Paris, Ernest Flammarion (1928).
- Voyage autour de mon amant, Paris, Ernest Flammarion (1928).
- Bonjour la Terre, Paris, Louis Querelle (1929).
- Loin, Paris, Ernest Flammarion (1929).
- La Caravane des morts, Paris, Éditions des Portiques (1930).
- Chez les mangeurs d'homme (Nouvelles-Hébrides), Paris, Éditions Duchartre, collection "Images" (1931), photographs by A.-P. Antoine and R. Lugeon.
- La Japonaise, Paris, Nouvelle société d'édition, collection "Elles" (1931).
- Nuits chaudes, Paris, Gallimard, collection "Succès" (1932).
- Une femme chez les chasseurs de têtes (Bornéo et Célèbes), Paris, Éditions de la nouvelle revue critique, collection "La Vie d'Aujourd'hui" (1934).
- Les ratés de l'aventure, Paris, Éditions de France (1938). Éditions Marchially (2020), ISBN 9791095582571.
- Une femme chez les chasseurs de têtes et autres reportages, Paris, Union Générale d’Éditions - 10/18, collection "Grands Reporters" (1985), preface by Francis Lacassin), ISBN 978-2081254251.
- Une femme chez les chasseurs de têtes, followed by Mes mémoires de reporter (inédit), Paris, Éditions Marchially (2016), ISBN 979-10-95582-02-1.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Gaveriaux, Laura-Maï (10 July 2019). "Titaÿna, grande reporter, aventurière et libre avant tout". Slate (in French).
- ^ a b c Heimermann, Benoît (2020). La Femme pressée (in French). Éditions Marchialy. pp. 9–16. ISBN 9791095582571., preface to Les Ratés de l'aventure.
- ^ a b Bellot, Marina (4 June 2018). "Titayna, le tourbillon des années 30". Retronews (in French).
Sources[edit]
- Heimermann, Benoît (2011). Titaÿna (in French). Arthaud. ISBN 978-2081254251.
