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Irène Némirovsky

April 2016

  • Agyness Deyn in the 2015 film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about freedom

    From Orwell’s satire to Woolf’s room of her own, great writers have shown us the personal and political freedoms that must be fought for and cherished

July 2015

  • The 2014 film version of Suite Francaise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 wartime love stories

    All’s fair game in love and war, from Odysseus in disguise from Penelope to Nineteen Eighty-Four’s preternaturally doomed couple Winston and Julia

March 2015

  • Matthias Schoenaerts and Michelle Williams in <em>Suite Française</em>

    My highlight
    My highlight: Suite Française by Caroline Moorehead

  • SUITE FRANCAISE

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Suite Française review – rewardingly complex and disarmingly compassionate

July 2013

  • Irene Nemirovsky

    The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky – review

    A fantastic period piece about the painful upheavals of love and the social pressures that bear down on individuals

October 2012

  • Michelle Williams at Comic Con 2012

    Michelle Williams set to star in Suite Française

    The film of Irène Némirovsky's bestselling book, set during the second world war, is aiming to cast the American actress as Lucile

October 2011

  • Irène Némirovsky

    The Wine of Solitude by Irène Némirovsky – review

    This atmospheric tale of émigrés and instability impresses Helen Dunmore

October 2009

  • The Dogs and the Wolves by Irène Némirovsky

  • Critical eye
    A roundup of reviews of new books by Robert Harris, Shirley Williams and Irène Némirovsky

January 2009

  • 1000 novels everyone must read
    1000 novels everyone must read: War & travel (part three)

    From Irène Némirovsky to Herman Wouk

November 2007

  • An ordinary story of evil country folk

    Irene Nemirovsky perfectly evokes the richness of the countryside in Fire in the Blood, says Katie Toms

September 2007

  • Sullenly, in arcadia

    George Szirtes is intrigued by Irene Nemirovsky's claustrophobic vignette, Fire in the Blood.

February 2007

  • Stuart Jeffries

    Truth, lies and anti-semitism

    Stuart Jeffries
  • 'May God help us all'

April 2006

  • We would have done the same under Nazi occupation

    Max Hastings
    Max Hastings: Irène Némirovsky's feted portrait of wartime France is an antidote to British complacency about collaboration.

March 2006

  • A personal history in the making

  • More war than peace

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