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Portrait de Elsa Triolet

Elsa Triolet

Elsa Triolet, born Ella Yourievna Kagan (in Russian: Элла Юрьевна Каган) on September 12, 1896 (September 24, 1896 in the Gregorian calendar) in Moscow and died on June 16, 1970 in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, is a woman of letters and resistance fighter of French origin Russian, born to Jewish parents. The first woman to win the Goncourt Prize, she is also known under the pseudonym Laurent Daniel.


Resources

Elsa Triolet, first woman winner of the Goncourt Prize - video

Interview with Elsa Triolet and Aragon, October 28, 1954 - video

Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon (1961) - video

Louis Aragon: “Elsa is not a myth but a being of flesh and spirit, the essence of my life, my life finally” - France Culture

Louis Aragon, crazy about Elsa - France Culture

Louis Aragon: There would be happy loves - France Culture

Louis Aragon: Elsa and Louis - France Culture


Correspondance : Louis Aragon, Jean Paulhan, Elsa Triolet 1920-1964, Le Temps traversé


Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Elsa Triolet, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

Texts by Elsa Triolet

  1. Maïakovski, poète russe..., 1939-04-01

Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)

This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.