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Irène Némirovsky

1903 - 1942

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Irène Némirovsky (French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; born Irina Lvovna Nemirovskaya; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irène Némirovsky is the 652nd most popular writer (down from 641st in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 94th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Irène Némirovsky is most famous for her novel Suite Française, which she wrote while in hiding from the Nazis. The novel was published posthumously in 2004.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Irène Némirovsky ranks 652 out of 7,302. Before her are Laurence Sterne, Nestor the Chronicler, Klaus Mann, Eugenio Montale, Jon Fosse, and Alexander Pope. After her are Jacob L. Moreno, Vicente Aleixandre, Bruno Schulz, Karl Kraus, Émile Verhaeren, and Giacomo Leopardi.

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Among people born in 1903, Irène Némirovsky ranks 36. Before her are Nikolai Podgorny, Fahri Korutürk, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Raymond Queneau, John Dillinger, and Hans Jonas. After her are John Eccles, The French Angel, Alec Douglas-Home, Bing Crosby, Jiro Horikoshi, and Haldan Keffer Hartline. Among people deceased in 1942, Irène Némirovsky ranks 18. Before her are Anton Drexler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Fritz Todt, Robert Bosch, William G. Morgan, and Franz Boas. After her are Bruno Schulz, Sabina Spielrein, Kārlis Ulmanis, François Darlan, Michel Fokine, and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Irène Némirovsky ranks 84 out of 1,365. Before her are Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Larisa Latynina (1934), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Anton Makarenko (1888), and Nestor the Chronicler (1056). After her are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Oleg Blokhin (1952), and Lev Shestov (1866).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Irène Némirovsky ranks 18. Before her are Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), and Nestor the Chronicler (1056). After her are Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), and Gregory Skovoroda (1722).

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