Dominique Desanti

Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) 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 (1972)
• Drieu La Rochelle (1978)
• Sacha Guitry (1982) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
• Sonia Delaunay (1988)
• Ce que le siècle m'a dit. Mémoires (1997), autobiography
• Robert Desnos: Le roman d'une vie (1999)
• La liberté nous aime encore (2001) with Jean-Toussaint Desanti
• La Sainte et l'Incroyante (2007)
• Sacha Guitry, itinéraire d'un joueur (2008) with Karin Müller
• Les Yeux d'Elsa au siècle d'Aragon (2010) with Karin Müller

History

• La colombe vole sans visa (1951)
• Les Socialistes de l’Utopie (1971) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
• Les Staliniens (1975)

Novels

• Un métier de chien (1971)
• Les Années passion (1992)

References