The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman
's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
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She was asked to write this...
Reception
Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield must surely have been the K. M. whose diary the novelist Irène Némirovsky
carried out to read in the French pine woods, near the edge of the German-occupied zone, while she was writing her...
Timeline
13 July 1942: French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist...
Writing climate item
13 July 1942
French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist Irène Némirovsky
was seized and taken to the concentration camp at Pithiviers in the Loiret département of France, en route for Auschwitz
in Poland.
After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...
Writing climate item
After March 2006
Irène Némirovsky
's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi
occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.
Texts
Némirovsky, Irène. Suite Française. Translator Smith, Sandra, Vintage Books, 2007.