Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise

July 22, 2008 on 7:08 pm | In General |

There is an upcoming exhibit beginning September 24, 2008, at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, that I am interested in seeing. I will try to make it to NYC in order to see, it, but if not, there will be an online virtual exhibit. The exhibit is entitled Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise.

Her original manuscript for “Suite Francaise” will be part of the exhibit, many family photographs, as well as other items that belonged to her. The exhibit looks to be exciting, informative and a wonderful tribute to Irene Nemirovsky. I would like to be able to not only see her original, handwritten manuscript, but also the family photographs that help to document her life, before she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died of “typhus”.

I am an avid fan of her work, and anxiously await the publication of her next book to be translated into English.