Irène Némirovsky
Born in 1903
Irène Némirovsky was a Russian-born Jewish author who found success in France before World War II. Born in Kyiv in 1903, she fled the Russian Revolution with her family, eventually settling in France.
Némirovsky achieved literary fame with her first novel, David Golder, at age 26.
She continued writing prolifically, publishing nine more books by 1937.
Despite converting to Catholicism, Némirovsky was arrested in 1942 due to her Jewish heritage and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.
Suite Française, her final and unfinished work, was written in secret during the German occupation of France and published decades after her death, cementing her legacy as a significant 20th-century author.
