Irene Nemirovsky
Sandra Smith and Angela Kershaw
- Date & Time
- 15 Apr 2012 - 15:00pm
- Venue
- Cambridge Union Blue Room
- Ticket price
- £8/£7
- Booking URL
- http://www.adcticketing.com/#/buytickets/3861
- Genre
- Fiction
- Authors
A penetrating look at the life and work of this accomplished novelist who died in Auschwitz. Her works include the classic Suite Française, David Golder and the most recently translated, The Wine of Solitude. A rare opportunity to hear Sandra Smith, Nemirovsky’s English translator, and Angela Kershaw, expert in French literature, conjure up the brilliance of this great author.
Chaired by Ruth Scurr, historian and biographer, author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.
This event is supported by Alliance Française.
The Full Line up
- Piccadilly Press Alien Team!
- David Bainbridge
- Iain Banks
- Paddington Bear
- Ian Beck
- Julia Bell
- Adam Blade
- Charley Boorman
- Ian Bostridge
- William Boyd
- Andy Briggs
- Denis Burdakov
- Liz Calder
- Ha-Joon Chang
- Susannah Clapp
- Alan Clark
- Julian Clary
- Steve Cole
- Hannah Critchlow
- Richard Davenport-Hines
- Jill Dawson
- Alain de Botton
- Justine de Mierre
- Grace Dent
- Christiane Dorion
- Margaret Drabble
- Helen Dunmore
- Geoff Dyer
- William Fiennes
- Patrick Flanery
- Louise Foxcroft
- Sandy Gall
- Anthony Giddens
- Sophie Hannah
- Michele Hanson
- Mary-Anne Harrington
- Alexandra Harris
- David Harsent
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Matthew Hollis
- Richard Hollloway
- Kathryn Hughes
- Sadie Jones
- Emma Jones
- Angela Kershaw
- Nicola Killen
- Paul Lewis
- Julia Lovell
- Paul Mason
- Lego Master Builder
- Alexander Masters
- Simon Mayo
- John McCarthy
- Mark McCrum
- Ravi Michandani
- Sue Monroe
- Nicola Morgan
- Esther Morgan
- Helen Moss
- Fiona Mountain
- Ciaran Murtagh
- Claire Nicholson
- Chibundu Onuzo
- Clive Oppenheimer
- City Picks
- Michael Portillo
- Jim Powell
- Wendy Pullan
- Ian Rankin
- Jess Richards
- Yu Rong
- Michael Rosen
- Noo Saro-Wiwa
- Sarah Savitt
- The Quizmaster, Sean Moore
- Tali Sharot
- Fiona Shaw
- Ali Smith
- Sandra Smith
- David Spiegelhalter
- Lauren St John
- Andy Stanton
- Rebecca Stott
- Rebecca Swift
- Library Team
- Andrew Wilson
- Daniel Wolpert
- Chris Wormell
- Kerry Young
