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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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culture · French novelist and essayist (1903–1987) · novelist · poet · essayist · translator · university teacher · writer · playwright · literary critic · short story writer · autobiographer · also Marguerite Yourcenar, Yourcenar, Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, Marguerite de Crayencour
Born 8 June 1903 · Died 17 December 1987 · Q163118
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2025· 2 entries
Le Monde.fr: Marguerite Yourcenar ou l’art d’être peu comme il faut
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2022· 1 entry
Radio-Canada: Marguerite Yourcenar racontée par Hélène Dorion et Marie-Claire Blais dans un opéra
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2021· 1 entry
Fabula: Marguerite Yourcenar et le souci du monde (Torun, Pologne)
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2018· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Mystification et Créativité dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar: Cinq lectures génétiques
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2017· 1 entry
Le Figaro: Marguerite Yourcenar: «Dès ma première jeunesse j’ai entrepris des livres qui durent toute ma vie»
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2014· 2 entries
Slate: Marguerite Yourcenar était-elle de droite?
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Le Monde.fr: Marguerite Yourcenar à l'Académie française
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2010· 1 entry
globalpulsemagazine.com: Marguerite Yourcenar, l'intemporelle
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2002· 1 entry
Fabula: Marguerite Yourcenar. Portrait d'une voix
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-12-17.
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1983).
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1980· 2 entries
Yourcenar became the first female member elected to the Académie française
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Career landmark: seat 3 of the Académie française (1980–1987).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1974).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Prince Pierre Award (1972).
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Femina Vacaresco award (1968).
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Awarded Prix Femina for L'Oeuvre au noir (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Renée Vivien (1958).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Georges-Dupau award (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Yourcenar published, in France, the novel Memoirs of Hadrian, which she had been writing on and off for a decade
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1939· 1 entry
Her partner at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited Yourcenar to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe
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1937· 1 entry
And remained together until Frick's death in 1979
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-06-08.
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