Jeanine Moulin née Jeanine Rozenblat is a Belgian poet and literary scholar.
Background
The daughter of Polish immigrants, Moulin"s family moved from Poland to Brussels in 1907. Moulin was born five years later. Her mother was a writer and her father a musician, and the young Moulin was raised in an artistic environment, surrounded by figures such as Franz Hellens and Joseph Roth.
Education
Moulin attended the University of Brussels to study Romance philology, publishing a dissertation on Gerard de Nerval and later a guide to the poetry of Apollinaire.
Career
She is known for her numerous books of poetry, as well as her research on subjects such as writer Gerard de Nerval and women"s literature. Her writing was recognized for its sharp analysis. Moulin"s first volume of poems, Jeux et Tourments, was published in 1947.
She became a prolific writer, publishing books of literary critique or her own poems every two to three years after.
She edited the collection Louisiana Poésie féminine, an anthology of women"s poetry from the twelfth century through the twentieth. In 1977, she was elected to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature française de Belgique.
The academy"s president praised her as an "indefatigable researcher, as intuitive as she is meticulous.".
Membership
Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.