Irène Némirovsky and Chinua Achebe were both what?
Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky (] ; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Successful in her day, she is now best known for the posthumously published "Suite française.
Véra Nabokov Véra Nabokov (Russian: Ве́ра Евсе́евна Набо́кова ; 5 January 1902 – 7 April 1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works.