Irene nemirovsky biography

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Irène Némirovsky

On July 13, , French gendarmes arrested Irène Némirovsky in southern Burgundy. She was deported to Auschwitz where she died on August Who was this woman, author of more than a dozen popular novels and more than thirty short stories, whose posthumous novel, Suite Française, won France's prestigious Renaudot prize in ? Born in Russia to wealthy parents, Irène Némirovsky immigrated to Paris in Although she was Jewish, she consorted with authors and politicians on the extreme right, some of whom were openly anti-Semitic. She was sure that these friends would protect her from deportation after the Nazis invaded France. Instead, they abandoned her. Yet she never lost faith in France, even after she was refused French nationality. In this fascinating biography, Jonathan Weiss analyzes the discrepancy between Némirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a unique way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of a persecuted people.

"In Némirovsky's search to reconcile national, religious, and cultural identities, Weiss recognizes the struggle of many immigrants in France today. For this reason, more general readers may enjoy this biography as much for the fresh perspectives it bring to qu

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The Ukrainian-born French writer Irène Némirovsky

Posted On: February 18th,

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[Editor’s note: Irene Nemirovsky joins Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz as a writer with deep ties to Ukraine, but who is still largely unknown by the country’s citizens. 24 February marks the ^th anniversary of Nemirovska’s birth. We reprint an article from that appeared on Istorychna Pravda marking the ^th anniversary of the birth of this extraordinary writer.]

She was born years ago in Kyiv, only to die in Auschwitz. She wrote a novel that was discovered sixty years after her death. It became a bestseller in France and has been translated into several dozen languages.

In international literary circles were stunned by the choice of winner of one of the most prestigious literary prizes in France, the Prix Théophraste-Renaudot. For the first time in nearly eighty years the prize was awarded posthumously.

Irène Némirovsky’s novel Suite Française, which was published sixty-two years after the author’s tragic demise, shocked some readers, leading them to reject it; others were compelled to talk about the “forgotten genius” of French literature.

Irène Némirovsky was born yea