Elisabeth Gille

Élisabeth Gille (1937-1996) was born in Paris to the banker Michel Epstein and the novelist Irène Némirovsky. She spent most of her career as an editor and translator before her first book, Le Mirador, appeared and was immediately acclaimed as a major work.

The Mirador - Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter By Elisabeth Gille Translated by Marina Harss In 1992 Gille published this fictionalized autobiography of the acclaimed novelist, who had led a sparkling life in Paris as one of the most successful and prolific European writers of the 1930s before being arrested as a Jew and led to her death in 1942. Category: Biography and Memoirs Publisher: NYRB Classics