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Annie Ernaux
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux 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.
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culture · French writer (born 1940) · writer · teacher · also Annie Ernaux, Annie Duchesne, Ernaux
Born 1 September 1940 · Q1153825
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2026· 3 entries
“absolutely in favour of women revolting against this absolute constraint”
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“écriture comme un couteau (Writing as Sharp as a Knife) with Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. A Woman”
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie review – snapshots of intimacy
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Scroll: Annie Ernaux at 84: How ‘oversharing’ made the Nobel Prize winner the master of the memoir
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The Guardian: The Years review – Annie Ernaux’s faint-inducing masterpiece roars into devastating life
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The Guardian: ‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage
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MutualArt.com: Annie Ernaux
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2023· 4 entries
The New Republic: Annie Ernaux’s Complex Passions
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The Guardian: The Young Man by Annie Ernaux review – an expert dissection of sex, age and power
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The Guardian: Where to start with: Annie Ernaux
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The Guardian: The Super 8 Years review – Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux’s lucid and deeply personal documentary
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2022· 9 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.
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Observer: Annie Ernaux and the Writer’s Obsession with Intermittent Love
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Yahoo: In honoring Annie Ernaux, the literature Nobel Prize gets it exactly right
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NPR: French writer Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature
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The Guardian: Annie Ernaux: the 2022 Nobel literature laureate’s greatest works
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NPR: Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature goes to French writer Annie Ernaux
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Publishers Weekly: Annie Ernaux Wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2022).
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Annie Ernaux and Complete Book Reviews
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2021· 1 entry
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
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2019· 4 entries
Awarded Prix de l’Académie de Berlin (2019).
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Awarded Prix Formentor (2019).
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And won the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
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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
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2018· 2 entries
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
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Expressed her support for the yellow vests protests
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Strega Prize (2016).
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Prix Marguerite Duras for The Years (2008).
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Awarded Prix François-Mauriac for The Years (2008).
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Awarded Prix de la langue française (2008).
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Awarded Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine) (2008).
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded prize Maillé Latour Landry for La Place (1984).
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Awarded Prix Renaudot for La Place (1984).
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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 s
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1982· 1 entry
For the assassination of an American military attaché, Lt
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1980· 6 entries
“I am beginning to reach the age when I say hello to the old women I meet in my neighborhood, anticipating the moment in life when I shall be one of them. When I was twenty I didn't notice them; they would be dead before my face had wrinkles.”
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“I can no longer think of any way to change my life except by having a baby. I will never sink lower than that.”
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“I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all.”
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“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
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“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
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“I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.”
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1974· 1 entry
With Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel
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1960· 1 entry
Travelled to London, England, where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016's Mémoire de fille (A Girl's Story)
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1940· 2 entries
Born 1940-09-01.
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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
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