French · b. 1903
Irène Némirovsky was a French novelist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, murdered at Auschwitz, whose unfinished masterpiece Suite Française was published to acclaim decades after her death.
Irène Némirovsky was a successful novelist in interwar France, author of David Golder and other works, before the Nazi occupation. As a Jew, she was arrested and deported in 1942, dying at Auschwitz.
Decades later, her daughter discovered the manuscript of Suite Française, a planned sequence of novels depicting France under occupation, of which Némirovsky had completed two parts before her arrest. Published in 2004, it became an international bestseller and a literary sensation, praised for its clarity, irony, and humanity amid catastrophe.
Némirovsky is now celebrated both for the rediscovered brilliance of Suite Française and as a poignant witness to a France—and a life—engulfed by the Holocaust.
by Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky's unfinished masterpiece, written during the Nazi occupation of France and discovered decades after her death at Auschwitz. Its two completed novellas portray the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris and life under German occupation, with extraordinary immediacy and moral clarity.
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