WRITER

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 was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irène Némirovsky has received more than 536,662 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Irène Némirovsky is the 642nd most popular writer (down from 578th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 66th in 2019) and the 20th 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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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Irène Némirovsky ranks 642 out of 7,302. Before her are Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Ivan Franko. After her are Kōbō Abe, Alexander Pope, Michael Crichton, Muriel Spark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Juana Inés de la Cruz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Irène Némirovsky ranks 34. Before her are Jiro Horikoshi, Fahri Korutürk, Karl Hanke, Raymond Queneau, George Beadle, and John Dillinger. After her are Tunku Abdul Rahman, Matthias Sindelar, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Bruno Bettelheim, Julius Fučík, and Lars Onsager. Among people deceased in 1942, Irène Némirovsky ranks 20. Before her are Robert Bosch, Fritz Todt, Bruno Schulz, Walther von Reichenau, Franz Boas, and François Darlan. After her are Hans-Joachim Marseille, Sabina Spielrein, Yanka Kupala, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Kārlis Ulmanis, and Carole Lombard.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Irène Némirovsky ranks 94 out of 1,365. Before her are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), and Ivan Franko (1856). After her are Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), and Roman Shukhevych (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Irène Némirovsky ranks 20. Before her are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Ivan Franko (1856). After her are Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), and Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873).

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