Odette Keun

**Odette Zoé Keun** (10 Satumba 1888 a Pera - 14 Maris 1978 a Worthing ) 'yar gurguzu ce ta ƙasar Holland, 'yar jarida kuma marubuciya, wadda ta yi tafiye-tafiye sosai a Turai, ciki har da Caucasus da farkon Tarayyar Soviet .

## Shekarun farko
Keun 'yar Gustave Henri Keun ce, a lokacin da take da mayaudari na farko kuma sakatariyar ofishin jakadancin Holland a Daular Ottoman, da matarsa ta biyu, Helene Lauro, wacce ta fito daga zuriyar Italiya/Girka.  Lokacin da mahaifinta ya mutu a shekarar 1902, iyalin sun kasance cikin talauci. Ta zama mai tawaye kuma mahaifiyarta ta tura ta zuwa makarantar kwana ta Ursuline a Netherlands. Bayan shekaru uku ta yanke shawarar zama mai bautar gumaka ta koma wani gidan ibada na Dominican a Tours . Ta yi murabus bayan shekaru biyu ta koma Istanbul. Ba ta sake samun kanta a cikin akidar cocin ba, rawar da 'yan Dominican ke takawa a yaƙi da Cathars, da kuma, a ƙarshe amma ba mafi ƙaranci ba, rashin aure . Akwai kuma dalili mafi amfani; bayan mutuwar mahaifiyarta, ita ce tushen goyon bayan 'yan'uwanta mata. Ta buga littafinta na farko "Les Maisons sur le Sable" (1914) inda ta bayyana bankwana da addinin, ra'ayoyinta kan matsalolin zamantakewa, da kuma sha'awarta ta soyayya.

## Soyayya da ayyukan sirri
Yaƙin Duniya na farko ya kawo ta Paris. Ta yi aiki a Red Cross a Rouen . A wancan lokacin, wasu ƙungiyoyin sirri da dama sun yi sha'awarta saboda ta nuna suka mai ƙarfi ga siyasar mulkin mallaka ta Birtaniya da Faransa. Bayan ta kamu da sonsa, ta yi tafiya zuwa ga masoyinta Bernard Lavergne wanda ya zauna a Algiers. Ta yi tafiya zuwa hamada a kan dawaki kuma ta ba da gudummawa ga kula da lafiya ga Berbers. An ƙara nuna shigarta cikin al'umma ta hanyar kiranta ga Berbers da su nemi ingantattun kayan aiki. Sabuwar masoyiya, yarima Grisha na Georgia , ya jagorance ta zuwa Georgia . Ta rubuta game da wannan tafiyar da kuma soyayyarta a cikin littafinta mai suna *Au Pays de la Toison d'Or* (1924). A ƙarshen bazara na 1921, yayin da take zaune tare da abokai a Istanbul kuma kwana biyu kafin ta yi tafiya zuwa Batum, 'yan sandan sojan Burtaniya sun kama ta, ba bisa ƙa'ida ba kuma wataƙila saboda ra'ayinta na gurguzu, kuma aka tura ta zuwa Sebastopol a Rasha. Ta shafe watanni uku tana fama da cin zarafin Cheka, kafin a sake ta zuwa Kharkov . Ta rubuta game da kama ta da abubuwan da suka faru a Rasha a *Sous Lénine.* *Bayanan kula da 'Yan Mata na Rasha a Rasha* (Paris 1922). 

## Wells da kuma neman hanya ta uku
Ta so ta koma Istanbul amma saboda abubuwan da suka faru na rudani, wannan birni ba shi da wani zaɓi, don haka ta koma Paris. Tsakanin 1924 da 1933, Keun ita ce abokin haɗin gwiwa na HG Wells, wanda ta zauna tare a Lou Pidou, gidan da suka gina tare a Grasse, Faransa. Wells, wanda ya cika shekaru 22 da haihuwa, ya sadaukar da littattafansa The World of William Clissold [1] (mafi daɗewarsa) da The Bulpington of Blup a gare ta. Daga baya ta yi aiki a matsayin sakatare a ofishin jakadanci a Amurka. A cikin littafinta na 1937 , A Foreigner Looks at the TVA, ta bayyana tsarin George W. Norris na Tennessee Valley Authority a matsayin "hanyar da dimokuradiyya mai sassaucin ra'ayi za ta iya rungumar zamani, don tantance tasirin tsarin ci gaba na Fascist da Kwaminisanci, yayin da take guje wa haɗarin ƙididdigewa." Bayan 1939, Keun ya zauna a Ingila, da farko a Landan, daga 1941 a Torquay, sannan daga ƙarshe a Worthing, West Sussex .

## Littattafai
A lokacinta, Odette marubuciya ce da aka san ta da ita, tare da jerin littattafai masu yawa,  ciki har da:

* Les Maisons sur le Sable (Sansot), 1914
* Mesdemoiselles Daisne de Constantinople (Sansot), 1917
* Les Oasis dans la Montagne (Calmann-Lévy), 1920
* Une Femme Moderne (Flammarion), 1921
* Sous Lénine; bayanin kula a Russie par les Anglais (Flammarion), 1922
** Kasadar da na yi a Bolshevik Rasha (Bodley Head), 1923 (fassarar Turanci daga marubucin)
* Au Pays de la Toison d'Or (Flammarion)
** A Ƙasar Golden Fleece, ta hannun ɗan majalisar dokoki mai zaman kansa na Georgia (Bodley Head) 1924 (Fassarar Turanci daga Jessiman)
* Mutumin da bai taɓa fahimta ba (Bodley Head) (an buga shi ba tare da an ambaci sunansa ba)
* Yarima Tariel: labarin Georgia (Cape), 1925 
** Prins Tariel (Fassarar Yaren mutanen Holland daga VdHorst) (Arbeiderspers), 1926
** Le Prince Tariel (Fassarar Faransa ta. Fouret) (Malfère), 1927
* La Capitulation (Malfère), 1929
* Dans l'Aurès inconnu: soleil, pierres et guelâas (Malfère), 1930
* Baƙo Ya Duba Sudan ta Burtaniya (Faber & Faber), 1930
* I Discover the English (Bodley Head), 1934
* Duhu daga Arewa (Brinton), 1935
* Wani Baƙo Ya Duba TVA (Longmans & Co), 1937
* "Ina Tunani Amo a Amurka" (Longmans & Co), 1939
* Kuma Jahannama Ta Biyo ... Wani abokin tarayyar Turai ya fassara yaƙin ga talakawa kamar ita (Constable & Co), 1942
* Kakaki Bray (Kwamandan 'Yan Sanda & Co), 1943
* Hatsarin Nahiyar; Hatsarin Mamayar Ƙasa, Kwarin Cin Nasara da Yankin Hatsaniya (Br. Cont. Syndicate), 1944
* Soloquy akan wasu batutuwa masu ban sha'awa ga Marubuci (Keun), 1960

Monique Reintjes ce ta rubuta tarihin rayuwar Odette Keun, kuma an fara buga ta a Amsterdam a shekara ta 2000.  

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