Irène Némirovsky

Marta Laura Cenedese (University of Turku)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 24 Feb 1903
Died 17 Aug 1942
Activity 1903-1940

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in France

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

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 …

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Citation: Cenedese, Marta Laura. "Irène Némirovsky". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 July 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13487, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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