French writer Tereska Torrès (pictured), best-known in the English-speaking world for her novel Women’s Barracks, has died in Paris at the age of 92, her family and friends announced on Monday. Torrès, whose death occurred on September 20th, was the author of 14 books, the first written when she was just 17 years-old, many of them translated into English by her second husband, the late US writer and journalist Meyer Levin. Born in Paris as Tereska Szwarc to Jewish Polish artist parents, Torrès fled to London in 1940 to escape the German occupation of France, where she enrolled in the Free French Forces and married a French Resistance fighter, Georges Torrès, who was killed in battle in 1944. Perhaps the strangest chapter in her eventful life was how her book about her experiences as a woman soldier in wartime London, Women’s Barracks, became a bestseller and a pillar of lesbian pulp fiction. Last year, Torrès produced a new version in French, when Antoine Perraud interviewed her about her multiple lives and extraordinary relationships, which we republish here.