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May 27, 1920 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 22 Dec 2002 (aged 82)
French writer and novelist
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About Gabrielle Wittkop
- Gabrielle Wittkop (née Menardeau) (1920 – 22 December 2002) was a French writer.
- She was born in Nantes.
- She married Justus Wittkop, a Nazi deserter, in Paris and moved with him to Germany in 1946 after the end of the Second World War.Her first book, on the German writer E.T.A.
- Hoffmann was published in German in 1966.
- Her first novel Le Necrophile (The Necrophiliac, 1972) was published in 1972 by Régine Desforges.
- She wrote several highly regarded novels and travelogues.
- She also contributed to the art pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. After her partner committed suicide, she wrote an account of it in Hemlock (1988).
- She herself committed suicide in 2002, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
- Although popular in France and Germany, Wittkop's works are not widely available in English.
- The Necrophiliac was translated in a Canadian edition by Don Bapst in 2011, and in a Danish edition by Christina Ytzen in 2018.
