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This timeline places the life and work of Ukrainian novelist Irène Némirovsky (11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) in their biographical, literary, and historical contexts.

Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 1900s 1.2 1910s 1.3 1920s 1.4 1930s 1.5 1940s 2 Notes

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[edit] 1900s

Year	Némirovsky	Literary history	Political history
1903	11 February - Némirovsky is born in Kiev, Ukraine to a wealthy Jewish banking family[1]
1904		Publication of Beatrix Potter's children's novel The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
1905
1906
1907
1908		Publication of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables
1909

[edit] 1910s

Year	Némirovsky	Literary history	Political history
1910
1911		Publication of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera
1912		Publication of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917	Némirovsky's French teacher dies, an event that inspires her to begin writing[1] October - Némirovsky's family moves from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, Russia at the beginning of the October Revolution.[2] December - Némirovsky's family flees Russia, traveling to Finland disguised as peasants after a bounty is placed on Léon Némirovsky head[3]		25 October - The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian Provisional Government during the October Revolution[4]
1918			11 November - Germany signs an an armistice agreement with the Allies, ending fighting during World War I
1919	Némirovsky's family sail on a small cargo ship to Paris, France[3]		25 January - The League of Nations is established[5] 28 June - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, officially ending World War I[6]

[edit] 1920s

Year	Némirovsky	Literary history	Political history
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924	Némirovsky meets Michel Epstein, a banker[7]
1925
1926	Némirovsky marries Epstein[7]
1927	Némirovsky publishes her first novella L'Enfant génial[3]
1928
1929	Némirovsky gives birth to her first daughter Denise[7] Publishes her first novel David Golder[8]

[edit] 1930s

Year	Némirovsky	Literary history	Political history
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937	20 March - Némirovsky gives birth to her second daughter Elisabeth[7]	Publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit
1938	Némirovsky works on novel later published as Chaleur du sang in 2007.[9]
1939	2 February - Némirovsky and Epstein convert to Roman Catholicism, and have their daughters baptized[10]

[edit] 1940s

Year	Némirovsky	Literary history	Political history
1940	June - Némirovsky and her family move to the village of Issy-l'Evêque after the Germans begin to occupy Paris[11] September - Némirovsky writes to Pétain in a bid to distance herself from other émigrés, which she lables "undesirable troublemakers"[10]		10 May - Germany invades France and the Low Countries. France capitulates the following month[12]
1941	Némirovsky works on novel later published as Suite française in 2004[13]		7 December - Japanese forced attack the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor[14] 8 December - The United States declares war on Japan and later Germany[15]
1942	13 July - Némirovsky is arrested by French police in Issy-l'Evêque[16] 16 July - She is interned at a concentration camp at Pithiviers and is deported to Auschwitz concentration camp the next day[16] July - Michel Epstein, Némirovsky's husband, writes to Otto Abetz, the German ambassador to Vichy France, in a bid to save his wife's life[10] 17 August - Némirovsky dies from typhus in Auschwitz[17] 6 November - Epstein is gassed at Auschwitz[17]	Publication of C. S. Lewis' novel The Screwtape Letters	17 July - Germany attacks the Soviet city of Stalingrad. The Germany Army surrendered the following year, turning the tide of the war in the Allies favor[18]

[edit] Notes