Discipline: Literature

Mireille Marokvia

Discipline: Literature
Region: Las Cruces, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1968, 1970, 1974
Mireille Marokvia (1908-2008) was a French writer best known for her two books about her ordeals during World War II in Nazi Germany, Immortelles: Memoir of a Will o’ the Wisp (1996) and Sins of the Innocent (2006). She also wrote a series of children’s books, illustrated by her husband, that had French animals as their main characters: “Jannot, a French Rabbit,” “Nanette, a French Goat” and “Grococo, a French Crow.” She undertook the series, she told an editor, because she “wanted to teach American children about France.” She also wrote the children’s books Belle Arabelle and A French School for Paul.

Studios

Schelling

Mireille Marokvia worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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