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Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky (en russe : Ирина Леонидовна Немировская, Irina Leonidovna Nemirovskaïa) est une romancière russe d'expression française, née à Kiev le 11 février 1903 (24 février dans le calendrier grégorien) et morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé Suite française.


Irène Némirovsky (Russian: Ирина Леонидовна Немировская, Irina Leonidovna Nemirovskaya) was a Russian novelist who wrote in French. She was born in Kyiv on February 11, 1903 (February 24 in the Gregorian calendar) and died on August 19, 1942, in Auschwitz. A successful author in 1930s France, she was largely forgotten after World War II. She is the only writer to have been awarded the Prix Renaudot posthumously, in 2004, for her unfinished novel Suite Française.

French novelist (1903–1942)

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Died 1942

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French novelist (1903–1942)

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