Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist.
She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier. She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923. She was friends with Jean Cocteau and Colette, who referred to her as "la petite poyétesse".
She was openly lesbian.
Her diary, which she kept from 1913 to 1929, was only found again in 1995, and published in 2003.
On 29 January 2009, a public square was named after her in Paris.
References
- Howard Pollack, John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (Music in American Life), University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 252
- ^ La Quinzaine Littéraire n°972, 1 July 2008
- ^ Ursula Del Aguila, 'Paris: une place au nom de la poétesse lesbienne Mireille Havet', Têtu, 29 January 2009 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
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