About the book: year / About the book: Mata Hari became famous before the First World War as an exotic dancer and stage artist. However, she gained worldwide fame after a French military tribunal sentenced her to death in July 1917 for spying for the Germans. Guatemalan Enrique Gomez Carrillo meticulously studied the biography of this woman, from her childhood in the Dutch Leeuwarden to her execution at the training ground in Vincennes. The author's story is supplemented by reports from people who knew Mata Hari personally. Enrique Gómez Carrillo (February 27, 1873 – November 29, 1927) was a Guatemalan writer, literary critic, journalist and diplomat. Author of almost 80 books in various genres. In particular, his “Chronicles” (cronicas), written in the genre of modernist prose, are best known..