Nathalie Sarraute

Natalia Tcherniak was born on 18 July 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia, into a Jewish family. Her parents having divorced, she lived between Russia and France before settling in Paris as a child. A graduate in English, having studied at Oxford and in Berlin, then a graduate in law in 1925, she married the lawyer Raymond Sarraute the same year, with whom she had three daughters, and herself became a lawyer. The antisemitic laws of Vichy forbade her to practise, and she lived in hiding during the Occupation. She died in Paris on 19 October 1999, at the age of ninety-nine.

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