IN 1941, AS THE Nazis occupied France, Irène Némirovsky began to write an epic work to convey what her fellow country people were going through. It could not be published in Nazi occupied France and so became lost in time. Sixty years later, long after her death in Auschwitz, Némirovsky’s manuscript was rediscovered in the early 1990s by her daughter and published to international acclaim.
Irene Nemirovsky
Born in Kiev in 1903, Irene Nemirovsky fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became an acclaimed novelist. She wrote over 10 novels, including the unfinished magnum opus Suite Francaise which was published posthumously in France in 2004 and has become an international bestseller. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
