Enid Blyton and Irène Némirovsky
J K Rowling has only just beaten Enid Blyton into first place as the world’s best selling children’s author. Camera-shy Blyton’s books have sold over 400 million copies worldwide, rising by 2 million every year. A major new biography of her comes out this October: Looking for Enid by Duncan McLaren (Portobello Books).
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev, lived in Russia and France, and died in Auschwitz in August 1942. One of her great unpublished novels, Suite Française, was discovered and released last year, decades after her death, to huge public and critical acclaim. A second miraculous survivor, Fire in the Blood is “a literary find of the same quality”, according to the Sunday Times, and now published in the English language.
TopFoto is proud to have supplied the cover photographs for both Suite Française and Fire in the Blood (Chatto & Windus).
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0361862 - Enid Blyton ©UPPA / TopFoto
rv18776-1 ©Roger-Viollet / TopFoto - on the cover of Fire in the Blood (Chatto & Windus)
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rv17590-2 ©Roger-Viollet / TopFoto - on the cover of Suite Française (Chatto & Windus)