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Irène Némirovsky

イレーヌ・ネミロフスキー

Irène Nemirovsky

Aliases: イリーナ・リヴォヴナ・ネミロフスカヤ / Irina Lvovna Nemirovskaya

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1903-02-11 （Kiev）
Died
1942-08-17 （Auschwitz-Birkenau） age 39
Nationality
Russian Empire, Stateless
Languages
French, Russian
Religion
Roman Catholic Church Baptized in 1939
Residence History
Kiev (birth) → Finland (1918) → Paris (from 1918) → Issy-l'Évêque (1940)

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1927-1942

Education

Sorbonne
Faculty of Letters
Period: 1921頃
Country: France
Began writing at age 18

Awards

Prix Renaudot
2004
Work: Suite Française
Organization: Prix Renaudot Committee
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Suite Française

2004 Novel

Unfinished two-novella work depicting life in Nazi-occupied France.

WarOccupationHumanity
Adaptations
  • [Film] Suite Française / Saul Dibb (2015)
Translations
  • Translated into 38 languages

Bibliography

  • L'Enfant génial
  • David Golder
  • Le Bal
  • Le Malentendu
  • Les Mouches d'automne
  • L'Affaire Courilof
  • Le Pion sur l'échiquier
  • Films parlés
  • Le Vin de solitude
  • Jézabel
  • La Proie
  • Deux
  • Le Maître des âmes
  • Les Chiens et les loups
  • La Vie de Tchekhov
  • Les Biens de ce monde
  • Les Feux de l'automne
  • Dimanche

Adaptations

  • Le Bal opera (2010, Hamburg)
  • Suite Française film (2015)

Translations of Works

  • Numerous English translations

Style & Themes

Literary Style
ModernismRich psychological portraits
Recurring Motifs
Mother-daughter conflictsJewish charactersFamily dynamics

Health

  • Typhus
    1942年
    Died in Auschwitz

Legacy

Rediscovered posthumously with Suite Française becoming a bestseller and winning Prix Renaudot. Known as Holocaust victim.

Archives

  • IMEC (France)

In Popular Culture

  • Film adaptations

Trivia

  • Converted to Catholicism but arrested as Jew
  • Mother relationship central to novels
  • Denied French citizenship