Elsa Triolet

Ella Kagan was born in Moscow in 1896, into a Jewish family. The younger sister of Lili Brik, companion of the poet Mayakovsky, she studied architecture. She married the French officer André Triolet, whose name she kept, and left with him for Tahiti in 1919. She met Louis Aragon in Paris on 6 November 1928. After writing in Russian, she published in French from 1938. Active in the Resistance, she became in 1945 the first woman to receive the Prix Goncourt. She died in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines in June 1970.

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• NovelLe Rossignol se tait à l'aubeElsa Triolet · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature