Ingrid Aguiluz is the creator of the novel Anais Proulx. She is a young woman who was found at the age of 14 by her foster-parents and given up for adoption. At this young age she was already called “Anais”, because she looked like noise, which is a type of Spanish maid or girl. She was raised in a home headed by a Spanish National, also named Pedro. The adoption agency that Ingrid was working for would not allow Ingrid to find her own identity or nationality because she is from Spain, thus making her a Spaniard.
Ingrid is brought up as a national of Spain, given the surname “Aguiluz”. This surname is actually created through the marriage of her foster-father to a lady of the royal family of the Netherlands, a lady called Maria de Losada. Through the marriage Ingrid took the surname of her stepmother, Ingrid Aguiluz. Thus, Ingrid acquired two nationalities: one Spaniard, and one Dutch. Being a Spaniard, Ingrid considered herself as belonging to the Moorish race, because of her dark skin and her long brown hair, but through her marriage to Pedro she has adopted a Spanish national identity.
Throughout her early years, Ingrid continued to live as a member of the royal family, and through this she maintained her citizenship and nationality. Eventually she married a citizen of the Netherlands, a man named Freddy De Loos, and grew to be a mother and a wife to him. Meanwhile her profession and military service kept her a free and active citizen, until the outbreak of World War II. Here she discovered that her employer had arranged for her to take part in the volunteer activities of the military, which makes her recall her earlier nationalistic self. It was her conviction of what she called “racialism” that finally drove her to commit suicide at the age of thirty-one.