Boris Schreiber

Boris Schreiber (28 May 1923 – 11 February 2008) was a French writer. Biography Boris Schreiber was born on 28 May 1923 in Berlin, where his parents, Wladimir Schreiber and Eugénie Markowitch, lived as refugees of the Russian Revolution. His father worked for the German-Russian joint stock transport company (Derutra) and later for a German import-export company. The family enjoyed a life of prosperity. After his father lost his job six years later, the Schreibers left Berlin, moving to Antwerp, where they lived in abject poverty. Eugénie's family in Riga subsequently took them in. In 1930, they moved to Paris, where Boris Schreiber was sent to several schools, having already been taught French by his aunt in Riga. In 1937, he began to write a diary and tried to establish contact with various writers (Romain Rolland, Georges Duhamel, Francis Carco)). He also kept abreast of the literary world and thus discovered the works of other Jewish immigrant writers from the East, in particular those of Irène Némirovsky and Jean Malaquais. In 1938 he visited André Gide and read excerpts from his diary and a short story to him.