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Elsa Triolet

エルザ・トリオレ

Eruza Torioore

Aliases: Ella Yuryevna Kagan / Элла Юрьевна Каган
Pen Names: Laurent Daniel（Pseudonym used for publishing Les Amants d'Avignon）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1896-09-24 （Moscow）
Died
1970-06-16 （Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines） age 73
Nationality
Russian, French
Languages
Russian, French
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Moscow (Russian Empire) → France → Tahiti

Career

Occupations
Writer, Translator
Active Years
1925-1970
Influenced By
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Roman Jakobson
Influenced
Louis Aragon

Education

Moscow Institute of Architecture
Architecture
Country: Russia

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1944
Work: Le premier accroc coûte deux cents francs
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le premier accroc coûte deux cents francs

1944 Novel

A story set during the French Resistance. Prix Goncourt winner.

ResistanceWarLove

Les Amants d'Avignon

1943 Novel

Published pseudonymously by Éditions de Minuit.

LoveSecrecy

In Tahiti

1925 Novel

Based on letters from a visit to Tahiti, written in Russian.

TravelCross-culture

Bibliography

  • In Tahiti (1925)
  • Wild Strawberry (1926)
  • Camouflage (1928)
  • Bonsoir Thérèse (1938)
  • Le premier accroc coûte deux cents francs (1944)
  • Roses à crédit (1959)

Adaptations

  • Roses à crédit (film, 2010)

Translations by Author

  • Translations of Mayakovsky's poetry into French

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Influenced by Russian FuturismRealism
Recurring Motifs
WarLovePolitics

Health

  • Heart attack
    1970
    Cause of death

Legacy

First woman to win the Prix Goncourt. French Communist Party member and Resistance fighter. Partner of Louis Aragon.

In Popular Culture

  • 2010 French postage stamps issued

Trivia

  • Sister of Lilya Brik
  • From a Jewish family
  • Associated with Russian Futurists