Dominique Desanti
Actor
- Born
- August 31, 1914 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- April 8, 2011 (age 96)
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.
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Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti; he died in 2002.
She died in Paris in 2011.
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Known for
Acting1
- 1995Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History as Self