Dominique Desanti

Dominique Desanti (1920 April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.[1]

The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky[1] in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943[2] until 1956.[1] Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II.[1] She also taught university in the United States.[2]

Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti;[1] he died in 2002.[3]

She died in Paris in 2011.[1]

Selected works

Biographies

  • Flora Tristan : La Femme révoltée (1972)[2]
  • Drieu La Rochelle (1978)[1]
  • Sacha Guitry (1982) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française[4]
  • Sonia Delaunay (1988)[2]
  • Ce que le siècle m'a dit. Mémoires (1997), autobiography[1]
  • Robert Desnos: Le roman d'une vie (1999)
  • La liberté nous aime encore (2001) with Jean-Toussaint Desanti
  • La Sainte et l'Incroyante (2007)
  • Sacha Guitry, itinéraire d'un joueur (2008) with Karin Müller
  • Les Yeux d'Elsa au siècle d'Aragon (2010) with Karin Müller[3]

History

  • La colombe vole sans visa (1951)[2]
  • Les Socialistes de l’Utopie (1971) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française[4]
  • Les Staliniens (1975)[2]

Novels

  • Un métier de chien (1971)
  • Les Années passion (1992)[2]
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References

  1. "Dominique Desanti est morte". Le Nouvel Observateur. April 11, 2011.
  2. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 82. ISBN 0415159806.
  3. "Dominique Desanti, historienne, écrivaine et résistante, est décédée". L'Express. April 11, 2011.
  4. "Dominique Desanti". 'Académie française.


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