Mononymous person town of Stendal, birthplace of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whom Stendhal admired. In the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (author of "Gigi", 1945), used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their given name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), became famous as Novalis. The 19th-century Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), better
Gabrielle Gourdeau Gabrielle Gourdeau Gabrielle Gourdeau (1952 – July 5, 2006) was a writer in Quebec, Canada. Born in the Limoilou neighbourhood of Quebec City, Gourdeau received a PhD in French literature from the University of Toronto. She lectured in the Department of Literature at Laval University for a number of years. In 1992, she received a fellowship grant from Laval University to assist her in writing "Analyse du discours narratif", a work of literary criticism. That same year, Gourdeau published her first novel "Maria Chapdelaine ou le Paradis retrouvé"; despite some negative reaction from critics, it was awarded the Prix Robert-Cliche