Elissa Rhaïs, born Rosine Boumendil was a Jewish-Algerian writer, who adopted the persona of a Muslim woman who had escaped from a harem to further her literary career.
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Elissa Rhaïs, born Rosine Boumendil was a Jewish-Algerian writer, who adopted the persona of a Muslim woman who had escaped from a harem to further her literary career. Her novels were popular in her lifetime, but declined; interest in her life was revived in the 1980s by a claim that all her publications had been ghost-written and that she was illiterate.
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1876 to 1940 · aged 63
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8 languages
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