Ovida Delect
French trans poet, communist and victim of the Holocaust · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1926 to 1996 · aged 70
Ovida Delect was a French poet, Communist, politician and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. She was also a trans woman and wrote a two volume autobiography about her life, in which she identified similarities between her own experience and that of Christine Jorgensen.
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About this person
Delect starred in a documentary, which brought the experiences of trans women into the wider canon of women in French film.
Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 1996 · aged 70
