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Irène Némirovsky
French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
1903
-
1942
country of citizenship:
France, statelessness, Russian Empire
educated at:
University of Paris
occupation:
writer, novelist
award received:
Prix Renaudot, Mort pour la France
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Irène Némirovsky (French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Successful in her day, she is now best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
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