Elsa Triolet

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yuryevna and the family name is Kagan.
Elsa Triolet
BornElla Yuryevna Kagan
24 September 1896
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died16 June 1970 (aged 73)
Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
Occupationwriter
NationalityRussian, then French
Notable awardsPrix Goncourt 1944
Spouse
André Triolet
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(m. 1918, divorced)​
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(m. 1939)​
RelativesLilya Brik (sister)

Ella Yuryevna Kagan (Russian: Элла Юрьевна Каган; 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1896 – 16 June 1970), known as Elsa Triolet (Russian: Эльза Триоле), was a Russian-French writer and translator.

Biography

Ella Yuryevna Kagan was born into a

Moscow Institute of Architecture
.

Elsa (right) with her mother, Yelena, and her sister, Lilya, in 1906

Ella soon became associated with the

Russian-language
poetry) to French.

In 1918, at the outset of the Russian Civil War, Ella married the French cavalry officer André Triolet, and emigrated to France, where she changed her name to Elsa, but for years admitted in her letters to Lilya to being heartbroken. She later divorced Triolet.

In the early 1920s, Elsa described her visit to

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 and published in Leningrad, was based on these letters. She published two further novels in Russian, Wild Strawberry (1926) and Camouflage (1928), both published in Moscow.[1]

In 1928 Elsa met French writer Louis Aragon. They stayed together for 42 years and married in 1939. She influenced Aragon to join the French Communist Party.[citation needed] Triolet and Aragon fought in the French Resistance.

In 1944 Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Le premier accroc coûte 200 francs.

She died, aged 73, in Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France of a heart attack.

In 2010, La Poste, the French post office, issued three stamps honoring Triolet.

Documentary

  • 1965 : Elsa La Rose directed by Agnès Varda
  • 2022 : In the eyes of Elsa Triolet directed by
    Gregory Monro

Bibliography

  • На Таити (In Tahiti, in Russian, 1925)
  • Земляничка (Wild Strawberry, in Russian, 1926)
  • Защитный цвет (Camouflage, in Russian, 1928)
  • Bonsoir Thérèse (Good Evening, Theresa - her first book in French, 1938)
  • Maïakovski (1939) translation by N. Semoniff (in Russian – published by Т/О "НЕФОРМАТ" Издат-во Accent Graphics Communications, Montreal, 2012)
  • Mille regrets (1942)
  • Le Cheval blanc (The White Horse, 1943)
  • Les Amants d'Avignon. (The Lovers of Avignon, published pseudonymously as Laurent Daniel for Éditions de Minuit, 1943)
  • Qui est cet étranger qui n'est pas d'ici ? ou le mythe de la Baronne Mélanie (Who Is This Stranger Who Isn't from Here? or, The Myth of Baroness Melanie) (1944)
  • Le Premier accroc coûte deux cents francs (A Fine of 200 Francs, 1945, Prix Goncourt 1944)
  • Personne ne m'aime (Nobody Loves Me, 1946; published in French by Le Temps des Cerises éditeurs, 2014)
  • Les Fantômes armés (The Armed Phantoms, 1947; Le Temps des Cerises éditeurs, 2014)
  • L'Inspecteur des ruines (The Inspector of Ruins, 1948)
  • Le Cheval roux ou les intentions humaines (The Roan Horse, or Humane Intentions) (1953)
  • L'Histoire d'Anton Tchekov (The Life of Anton Chekov) (1954)
  • Le Rendez-vous des étrangers (1956)
  • Le Monument (1957)
  • Roses à crédit (1959), the 2010 movie Roses à crédit is based on the story
  • Luna-Park (1960)
  • Les Manigances (1961)
  • L'Âme (1962)
  • Le Grand jamais (The Big Never) (1965)
  • Écoutez-voir (Listen and See) (1968)
  • La Mise en mots (1969)
  • Le Rossignol se tait à l'aube (1970)

Notes and references

  1. ISBN 0801422515
    ), p. 199.

External links
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