Irène Némirovsky
French writer
Died when: 39 years 187 days (474 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Irène Némirovsky (French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Russian Jewish origin who was born in Kyiv, 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 in Auschwitz at the age of 39.
Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
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