She was the second wife of the writer Jean Bruller, also known as Vercors, and collaborated with him on works released under that pen name.
Rita Barisse met her future husband at a PEN International banquet in Copenhagen in 1948, where she represented Britain.
[5] This includes the translation and adaptation of Why I ate my father by Roy Lewis, discovered by Théodore Monod, and Oh!
She is credited with adapting Monsieur La Souris written by Georges Simenon for the film Midnight Episode (1950).
[6] In 1954, she refused to translate the work of Andre Siegfried because of how the book dealt with the Jewish minority in the United States.