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Elsa Triolet Elsa Triolet (September 12 (24) 1896 - June 16 1970) was a French writer, a wife of Louis Aragon and a sister of Lilya Brik. Born Elsa Kagan (Russian: Эльза Каган) into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, she received excellent education and was able to speak fluent German and French languages and play piano. She graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture. Elsa enjoyed poetry and in 1915 befriended Vladimir Mayakovsky. When she invited him home, the poet fell madly in love with her sister Lilya, who was married to Osip Brik. In 1918, at the outset of Russian Civil War, Elsa married French cavalry officer Andre Triolet and emigrated to France, but for years in her letters to Lilya Elsa admitted of being heartbroken. She was the first to translate Mayakovsky's poetry to French language. Later she divorced Triolet, and in 1928 she met French writer Louis Aragon. They married and stayed together for 42 years. She convinced Aragon to join French Communist Party. Elsa Triolet participated in French anti-fascist resistance. In 1945, she was awarded Prix Goncourt, the first time a woman received this most prestigious prize in French literature. Bibliography - In Tahiti (written in Russian, 1925)
- Good Evening, Theresa, 1938 - her first book in French
- Le cheval blanc (The White Horse, 1943)
- Personne ne m'aime (Nobody Loves Me, 1946)
- Les Fantmes armes (The Phantom Armies, 1946)
- L'Inspecteur des ruines (The Inspector of Ruins, 1948)
- Le Premier Accroc du cote 200 francs (A Fine of 200 Francs, 1945)
Triolet, Elsa Triolet, Elsa Triolet, Elsa Triolet, Elsa
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