Dominique Desanti
French journalist
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]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Dominique Desanti est morte". Le Nouvel Observateur. April 11, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 82. ISBN 0415159806.
- ^ a b "Dominique Desanti, historienne, écrivaine et résistante, est décédée". L'Express. April 11, 2011.
- ^ a b "Dominique Desanti". 'Académie française.
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