Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a wealthy Jewish family; her father was a banker. Fleeing the revolution, her family settled in Paris in 1919; she studied literature at the Sorbonne there and wrote in French from the early 1920s. Success came in 1929 with a novel that was immediately noticed. French nationality was refused to her in 1938. Arrested in July 1942 because she was Jewish, she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died a few weeks later.

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• NovelLe BalIrène Némirovsky · 1930Literature