Irène Némirovsky was a Francophone novelist and short story writer. Born in Tsarist Russia, she escaped the Bolshevik revolution and settled in Paris as a teenager. Her breakthrough novel was
David Golder, which appeared in 1929; throughout the thirties she published many successful novels, among which
Le Vin de solitude[
The Wine of Solitude]
, Jézabel[
Jezebel],
Deux[
Two]
,and
Les Chiens et les loups[
The Dogs and the Wolves]
.She also wrote many short stories, which appeared in various magazines such as
Marianne, Gringoire, Candide, La Revue des Deux Mondes, and
La Nouvelle Revue Française. As a stateless person of Jewish confession she became prey of the anti-Jewish rulings that were introduced during the German Occupation of France, and in July 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz,…
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Citation: Cenedese, Marta Laura. "Irène Némirovsky". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 July 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13487, accessed 31 October 2024.]
