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{{Infobox person
| name = Tereska Torrès
| image = Tereska Torrès.jpg
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| birth_name = Tereska Szwarc
| birth_date = 3 September 1920
| birth_place = [[Paris]], France
| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|9|20|1920|9|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Paris]], France
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| occupation = writer
| spouse = Georges Torrès<br>[[Meyer Levin]]
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| children = [[Gabriel Levin]]
| parents = Guina and [[Marek Szwarc]]
| relatives = [[Samuel Schwarz (historian)|Samuel Schwarz]] (uncle)
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| nationality = [[France]]
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'''Tereska Torrès''' (born '''Tereska Szwarc'''; 3 September 1920{{spnd}}20 September 2012)<ref name="New York Times Orbituary">{{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/books/tereska-torres-writer-of-lesbian-fiction-dies-at-92.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www |title=Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer Of Lesbian Fiction, Dies |accessdate=25 September 2012 | work=The New York Times |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=24 September 2012}}</ref> was a French writer known for the 1950 book ''[[Women's Barracks]]'', the first "original paperback bestseller." In 2008 historians credited the republished book as the first [[pulp fiction book]] published in America to candidly [[Lesbian literature|address lesbian relationships]], although Torrès did not agree with this analysis.<ref name=telobit/>
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