Elsa Triolet

Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), born Ella Yuryevna Kagan in Moscow to a Jewish family, was a Russian-French novelist and translator who emigrated to France in 1918, married poet Louis Aragon, and became active in the French Resistance during World War II. New York Times obituary She is best known for her novel Le premier accroc coûte deux cents francs (1945), for which she became the first woman to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and other works like Roses à crédit (1959) and early Russian novels such as In Tahiti (1925).Elsa Triolet