After this entry was written, Suite Francaise was published in English, allowing Denise Epstein to tour the U.S. with the translator, Sandra Smith. Most of Nemirovsky's works have now been published in French, many of them translated into English. There is an illuminating biography of her by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (English translation from the French), and several beautiful collections of photographs and texts accompanying exhibitions in New York (The Museum of Jewish Heritage) and Paris (Musee Memorial de la Shoah). The reason that Nemirovsky left the camp in Pithiviers so suddenly after her arrest had to do with the preparation of both camps in the Loiret for the thousands of Jews arrested in the Vel d'Hiv roundup. A clarification about Suite Francaise: Storm in June is about the exodus of French people fleeing the Germans, and does not really deal with Jews. It is a dispassionate, objective look at the chaos from the perspective of an astute social commentator.
After this entry was written, Suite Francaise was published in English, allowing Denise Epstein to tour the U.S. with the translator, Sandra Smith. Most of Nemirovsky's works have now been published in French, many of them translated into English. There is an illuminating biography of her by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (English translation from the French), and several beautiful collections of photographs and texts accompanying exhibitions in New York (The Museum of Jewish Heritage) and Paris (Musee Memorial de la Shoah). The reason that Nemirovsky left the camp in Pithiviers so suddenly after her arrest had to do with the preparation of both camps in the Loiret for the thousands of Jews arrested in the Vel d'Hiv roundup. A clarification about Suite Francaise: Storm in June is about the exodus of French people fleeing the Germans, and does not really deal with Jews. It is a dispassionate, objective look at the chaos from the perspective of an astute social commentator.