Dominique Desanti
Dominique Desanti was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.
The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943 until 1956. Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II. She also taught university in the United States.
Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti; he died in 2002.
She died in Paris in 2011.Selected works
Biographies
- Flora Tristan : La Femme révoltée
- Drieu La Rochelle
- Sacha Guitry Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
- Sonia Delaunay
- Ce que le siècle m'a dit. Mémoires, autobiography
- Robert Desnos: Le roman d'une vie
- La liberté nous aime encore with Jean-Toussaint Desanti
- La Sainte et l'Incroyante
- Sacha Guitry, itinéraire d'un joueur with Karin Müller
- Les Yeux d'Elsa au siècle d'Aragon with Karin Müller
History
- La colombe vole sans visa
- Les Socialistes de l’Utopie Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
- Les Staliniens
Novels
- Un métier de chien
- Les Années passion
