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Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Early life and education Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne, ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of town. In 1960, she travelled to London, where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016's Mémoire de fille (A Girl's Story). Upon returning to France, she studied at the universities of Rouen and then Bordeaux, qualified as a schoolteacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971. She worked for a time on a thesis project, unfinished, on Pierre de Marivaux. In the early 1970s, Ernaux taught at a lycée in Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, at the college of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise, before joining the National Centre for Distance Education, where she was employed for 23 years. Literary career Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her works La Place (A Man's Place), an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place and her class of origin. Early in her career, Ernaux turned from fiction to focus on autobiography. Her work combines historic and individual experiences. She charts her parents' social progression (La Place, La Honte), her teenage years (Ce qu'ils disent ou rien), her marriage (La Femme gelée), her passionate affair with an Eastern European man (Passion simple), her abortion (L'Événement), Alzheimer's disease (Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit), the death of her mother (Une femme), and breast cancer (L'usage de la photo). Ernaux also wrote L'écriture comme un couteau (Writing as Sharp as a Knife) with Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. A Woman's Story (Une femme), A Man's Place, and Simple Passion were recognised as The New York Times Notable Books, and A Woman's Story was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Shame was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, I Remain in Darkness a Top Memoir of 1999 by The Washington Post, and The Possession was listed as a Top Ten Book of 2008 by More magazine. Ernaux's 2008 historical memoir Les Années (The Years), well received by French critics, is considered by many to be her magnum opus. In this book, Ernaux writes about herself in the third person ('elle', or 'she' in English) for the first time, providing a vivid look at French society just after the Second World War until the early 2000s. It is the story of a woman and of the evolving society she lived in. The Years won the 2008 Prix François-Mauriac de la région Aquitaine, the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, the 2008 Prix de la langue française, the 2009 Télégramme Readers Prize, and the 2016 Strega European Prize. Translated by Alison L. Strayer, The Years was a finalist for the 31st Annual French-American Foundation Translation Prize, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019, and won the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Her popularity in anglophone countries increased sharply after The Years was shortlisted for the International Booker. On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Ernaux would be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Ernaux is the 16th French writer, and the first Frenchwoman, to receive the literature prize. In congratulating her, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that she was the voice "of the freedom of women and of the forgotten". Many of Ernaux's works have been translated into English and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Seven Stories Press. Ernaux is one of the seven founding authors from whom the latter Press takes its name. Political activism Ernaux supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 French presidential election. In 2018, Ernaux expressed her support for the yellow vests protests. Ernaux has repeatedly indicated her support for the BDS movement, a Palestinian-led campaign promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. In 2018, the author signed a letter alongside about 80 other artists that opposed the holding of the Israel–France cross-cultural season by the Israeli and French governments. In 2019, Ernaux signed a letter calling on a French state-owned broadcasting network not to air the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Israel that year. In 2021, after the Operation Guardian of the Walls, she signed another letter that called Israel an apartheid state, claiming that "To frame this as a war between two equal sides is false and misleading. Israel is the colonizing power. Palestine is colonized." Ernaux signed a letter that supported the release of Georges Abdallah, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982 for the assassination of an American military attaché, Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray, and an Israeli diplomat, Yacov Barsimantov. According to the letter, the victims were "active Mossad and CIA agents, while Abdallah fought for the Palestinian people and against colonization". Following the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize, Ernaux showed solidarity with people's uprising in Iran against their government. The protests that followed the death of a young woman in the custody of Guidance Patrol (Morality Police) initially started against compulsory hijab law in Iran but soon took a broader focus on liberty. Ernaux said in an interview she was "absolutely in favour of women revolting against this absolute constraint". Personal life Ernaux was previously married to Philippe Ernaux, with whom she has two sons, Éric (born in 1964) and David (born in 1968). The couple divorced in 1981. She has been a resident of Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the Paris suburbs, since the mid-1970s. Works Les Armoires vides, Paris: Gallimard, 1974; Gallimard, 1984, ISBN 978-2-07-037600-1 Cleaned out. Translated by Carol Sanders. Dalkey Archive Press. 1990. ISBN 978-1-56478-139-0. Ce qu'ils disent ou rien, Paris: Gallimard, 1977; French & European Publications, Incorporated, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7859-2655-9 Do What They Say or Else. Translated by Christopher Beach and Carrie Noland. University of Nebraska Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1-4962-2800-0. La Femme gelée, Paris: Gallimard, 1981; French & European Publications, Incorporated, 1987, ISBN 978-0-7859-2535-4 A Frozen Woman. Translated by Linda Coverdale. Four Walls Eight Windows. 1995. ISBN .... Discover the Annie Ernaux popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Annie Ernaux books.
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Getting Lost
Annie Ernaux & Alison L. StrayerWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe diary of one of France’s most important, awardwinning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Rus...
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The Mystery Guest
Grégoire Bouillier & Ben TrumanA “frank and wry, mad and graceful” (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no...
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Annie Ernaux
Pierre-Louis Fort & Violaine Houdart-MerotEn 2002, Annie Ernaux déclarait que « ce qui compte, dans les livres, c’est ce qu’ils font advenir en soi et hors de soi ». Dix ans plus tard, dans l’entretien qui clôt ce volume, ...
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153 Formen des Nichtseins
Slata Roschal»Radikaler als Annie Ernaux« der FreitagKsenia ist Russin, sie ist Deutsche, sie ist Jüdin, sie ist unter Zeugen Jehovas aufgewachsen, sie ist eine junge Frau, Mutter, Schriftstell...
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El acontecimiento
Annie ErnauxUna mujer ante una sociedad en la que el aborto es un tabú (y un delito).En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruán estudiando filología, descubre que está embarazada...
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Annie Ernaux
Michèle Bacholle-BoškovićAnnie Ernaux a déclaré écrire à partir de son vide, que la perte est le « noyau dur » de tous ses livres, le fil qui les relie entre eux. Cet ouvrage propose une lecture attentive ...
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Aber es wird regnen
Clarice LispectorEndlich wiederentdeckt: die Virginia Woolf SüdamerikasPlatz 1 der SWR Bestenliste, eine beeindruckende Anzahl hymnischer Rezensionen und eine Nominierung der Übersetzung für den Pr...
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The Years
Annie Ernaux & Alison L. StrayerWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breako...
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Von der namenlosen Menge
Olivier DavidDIE VERMESSUNG SOZIALER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN DAS ARCHIV MEINER SOZIALEN WUT Geschichten von der UNTEREN KLASSE, Literatur über SOZIALE HERKUNFT – meist sind das Erzählungen von AU...
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Bevor ich es vergesse
Anne PaulyDas Lieblingsbuch des französischen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet mit dem französischen Publikumspreis als »Bestes Buch des Jahres«. Eine warmherzige VaterTochterGeschichte über das ...
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Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux & Tanya LeslieWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in ...
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Annie Ernaux
Bruno Blanckeman, Francine Dugast-Portes & Francine BestCet ouvrage est issu du colloque de Cerisy qui s’est déroulé autour d’Annie Ernaux en 2012 et a rassemblé des chercheurs internationaux issus de divers champs disciplinaires. Chaqu...
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Her Side of the Story
Alba de Céspedes, Jill Foulston & Elena Ferrante“A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written.” Elena Lappin, The Washington Post"De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force”The New York Times Book Revie...
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Happening
Annie Ernaux & Tanya LeslieWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed and world ominously narrowed in 1963 with an unwanted preg...
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Devotion
Marco Missiroli & Alex ValenteNOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, COMING VALENTINE'S DAY 2022 'An absolute scorcher' Evening Standard'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy'The Times'Intimate and ultimat...
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I Will Write to Avenge My People
Annie Ernaux & Alison L. StrayerPublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.«J’écrirai por...
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Slip
Amelia LoulliA daring and beautifully crafted debut collection about the experience of abortion – from an emerging poet and winner of the Northern Writers’ Award'Amelia Loulli stakes out fresh ...
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Close to Home
Michael Magee & Hannes MeyerMit gerade mal 22 Jahren steht Sean an einem Scheidepunkt. Aufgewachsen im von der Wirtschaftskrise erschütterten Belfast, inmitten von Arbeitslosigkeit, Tristesse und den schwele...
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El hombre joven
Annie ErnauxAnnie Ernaux cuenta en estas páginas la relación que mantuvo con un hombre mucho más joven que ella. Una experiencia que la hizo volver a ser, durante varios meses, la «chica escan...
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Entertaining Angels
Joanna BellJoshua Gilfoyle has decided there are two things he wants from life before he dies: to find his lost son and to commission an artist to produce his lasting legacy a new angel for ...
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Forbidden Notebook
Alba de Céspedes & Ann GoldsteinA New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Powerful.” The New Yorker“Brilliant.” The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." NPR“Forceful, clear and morally engaged.” The Washington ...
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Annie Ernaux - Duetto
Patrick Froehlich«Je cite souvent Annie Ernaux à propos de l’écriture qui est un activateur de mémoire. Été 58: elle a dixhuit ans, elle est monitrice dans une colonie de vacances, elle ne veut pl...
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Tagtraum und Trunkenheit einer jungen Frau
Clarice Lispector»Endlich wird eine der geheimnisvollsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts in all ihren schillernden Facetten wiederentdeckt.« Orhan PamukIdalina sucht einen Weg zwischen Vernunft un...
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Verleiblichung bei Peter Stamm und Annie Ernaux
Cornelia PechotaIm Zentrum dieser Publikation stehen die Erzählungen Nacht ist der Tag (2013) von Peter Stamm, Träger des Schweizer Buchpreises 2018, sowie die Erinnerung eines Mädchens (2018) der...
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Annie Ernaux - Duetto
Patrick Froehlich«Je cite souvent Annie Ernaux à propos de l’écriture qui est un activateur de mémoire. Été 58: elle a dixhuit ans, elle est monitrice dans une colonie de vacances, elle ne veut p...
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Nahe dem wilden Herzen
Clarice Lispector»Eine der geheimnisvollsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts.« Orhan Pamuk»Es ist eigenartig, dass ich nicht sagen kann, wer ich bin.« In der Ehe mit Rechtsanwalt Otávio findet Joan...
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Histoire de Madame de la Pommeraye
Denis Diderot & Paul NormaLe récit de la vengeance de Mme de la Pommeraye, suivi d’une étude du film Mademoiselle de Joncquières et d’un parcours littéraire « Héroïnes puissantes ». Dans une édition s...
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The Passengers
Will AshonAn original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023 'A spectacularly enjoyab...
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Ich und Jimmy
Clarice LispectorBestofLispector: 30 ausgewählte Kurzgeschichten der Kultautorin«Besser als Jorge Luis Borges» – Elizabeth Bishop. «Schneidend wie ein Diamant» – Rachel Kushner. «Die brasilianisch...
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A Question of Age
Jacinta ParsonsA beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a selfh...