Nora Mitrani (1921-1961) was a Bulgarian writer, one of the most active surrealists in France in the 1950s.
She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, completing a PhD on Malebranche and Maine de Biran.
[3] In the early 1930s surrealists objected to Stalinism, Mitrani expressing her opposition in these terms: “The collective massacres of these last few years have proven only too well that the crime of passion had ceased to be a solitary and magnificent mystery, but instead organized itself, crumbled into office files, into racial laws, faded into concepts of the Good and the Honorable”.
[5] Her written works covered a wide array of topics such as the Marquis de Sade, popular culture, Kierkegaard, film noir, and critical studies of technocracy, bureaucracy, and nuclear energy.
Most of her surrealist works were collected and published in 1988 under the title Rose au Coeur Violet.