Tereska Torrès

Tereska Torrès ( born September 3, 1920 in Paris, † September 20, 2012 ibid ) was a French writer.

Life

Tereska Torrès was the daughter of the Polish sculptor Marek Szwarc and his wife Guina. In 1940 she became a member of the Forces françaises libres.

Works

• Le sable et l' écume, Paris, Gallimard, 1946, 197 pages. Her first novel, begun at the age of 17 years, published under the pseudonym Georges Achard, the battle name of their fallen first husband Georges Torrès.
• Women's Barracks, Fawcett Publications, 1950. Reprint Feminist Press, 2005. A very successful lesbian pulp novel.
• Le Labyrinthe, Paris, Del Duca, 1958, 208 pages. Novel.
• Pas encore, Paris, Del Duca, 1958, 239 pages. Novel.
• The Converts, New York, Knopf, 1970. Account of her childhood and youth.
• Les Poupées de cendré, Paris, Seuil, 1979, 251 pages. Reprint Phebus, 2003. Novel.
• Les maisons de Meyer Levin hantées, Paris, Phebus, 1974. Reissues Denoël, 1991, Phebus, 2005). A report on her husband's enthusiasm for The Diary of Anne Frank.
• Les Années anglaises: journal intime de guerre, 1939-1945, Paris, Seuil, 1981, 277 pages.
• Le Pays des chuchotements, Paris, Séguier, 1987, 215 pages. Novel.
• Une Française libre. Journal 1939-1945, Paris, Phebus, 2000, 300 pages. Reprint Collection Libretto, 2007). The diary of the war years.
• Le Choix: mémoires à trois voix, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2002, 263 pages. Report on the conversion of their parents to Catholicism in 1919.
• Jeunes femmes en uniforme, Paris, Phebus, 2011. A French version of the Women's Barracks.

The originals of unpublished diaries are kept at Boston University.