Irène Némirovsky Quotes

Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under 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 at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. February 1903 – 17. August 1942
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Famous Irène Némirovsky Quotes

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd…”

Irène Némirovsky

Source: Suite Française

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