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Profile of Elsa Triolet
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Elsa Triolet |
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12th September 1896 |
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Moscow, Russia |
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Elsa Triolet (September 12 (24) 1896 - June 16, 1970) was a French writer, a wife of Louis Aragon and a sister of Lilya Brik.
Born Elsa Kagan (Russian: Ðльза Каган) into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, both sisters received excellent education and were able to speak fluent German and French languages and play piano. Elsa graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture.
Elsa enjoyed poetry and in 1915 befriended an aspiring futurist poet and graphic artist Vladimir Mayakovsky. When she invited him home, the poet fell madly in love with her older sister Lilya, who was married to Osip Brik.
In 1918, at the outset of Russian Civil War, Elsa married French cavalry officer André Triolet and emigrated to France, but for years in her letters to Lilya Elsa admitted of being heartbroken. She was the first to translate Mayakovsky's poetry (as well as volumes of other Russin-language poetry) to French language. Later she divorced Triolet.
During her visit to Tahiti in the early 1920s, Elsa sent letters to her friend Victor Shklovsky who subsequently showed them to Maxim Gorky. Gorky suggested that the author should consider a literary career. The 1925 book In Tahiti, written in Russian, was based on these letters.
In 1928 Elsa met French writer Louis Aragon. They married and stayed together for 42 years. She convinced Aragon to join French Communist Party.
Triolet and Aragon participated in French anti-fascist resistance movement. In 1945, she was awarded Prix Goncourt, the first time a woman received this most prestigious prize in French literature.
Bibliography
- Ðа Таити (In Tahiti, written in Russian, 1925)
- Good Evening, Theresa, 1938 - her first book in French
- Le cheval blanc (The White Horse, 1943)
- Personne ne m'aime (Nobody Loves Me, 1946)
- Les Fantômes armées (The Phantom Armies, 1946)
- L'Inspecteur des ruines (The Inspector of Ruins, 1948)
- Le Premier Accroc du coûte 200 francs (A Fine of 200 Francs, 1945)
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