Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky · Arts & Literature
French novelist ('Suite Française')
1903, Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1942, Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland
Ukraine · France
Irène Némirovsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — French novelist ('Suite Française')
Némirovsky was a French novelist, born into a wealthy Jewish banking family in Kyiv, who fled the Russian Revolution and won acclaim in France for novels such as David Golder. Her unfinished masterpiece Suite Française, depicting the 1940 exodus and occupation, was published decades after her death. Though she converted to Catholicism in 1939, she was arrested as a Jew and murdered at Auschwitz.
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French novelist ('Suite Française')
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