1986, SIGNED, Laurence Deonna, La Guerre a Deux Voix, To Melina Mercuri and Jules Dassin

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Laurence Deonna

La Guerre à Deux Voix : Des Femmes D’Egypte Et D’israël Parlent

The War with two voices: Women from Egypt and Israel Speak

 

Published by Le Centurion/Labor et Fides,  Paris in 1986

Signed and Inscribed to Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin!

First Edition

Original Soft Binding

Pages 284

22cm x 15cm (approx. 8,75inch. x 6inch.)

 

Laurence Deonna (1937 – 2023) was a Swiss journalist, writer and photographer who in the late 1960s became a celebrated war reporter in the Middle-East. In 1987, on the basis of her articles, books and photographs promoting international understanding and improvements to the status of women, she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Deonna published 12 widely translated books.

Jules Dassin (1911 –  2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Directors’ Guild.

Maria Amalia “Melina” Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία “Μελίνα” Μερκούρη, 1920 – 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a political family that was prominent over multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960). Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize.