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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

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