![]() In 1929, she published David Golder, the story of a Jewish banker unable to please his troubled daughter, which was an immediate success, and was adapted to the big screen by Julien Duvivier in 1930, with Harry Baur as David Golder. In 1926, Némirovsky married Michel Epstein, a banker, and had two daughters: Denise, born in 1929 and Élisabeth, in 1937. ![]() Her family fled the Russian Empire at the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, spending a year in Finland in 1918 and then settling in Paris, where Némirovsky attended the Sorbonne and began writing when she was 18 years old. Her volatile and unhappy relationship with her mother became the heart of many of her novels. Némirovsky was born Irina Lvivna Nemirovska ( Russian: Ирина Львовна Немировская) in 1903 in Kyiv, then Russian Empire, the daughter of a wealthy banker, Léon (Lev) Némirovsky. ![]() Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 39. She lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Irène Némirovsky ( French: 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kyiv, the Russian Empire. ![]() ![]() Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland ![]()
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