✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Annie Ernaux - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org · 6,124 words · saved by 1 readers

Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (French: [ɛʁno]; née Duchesne [dyʃɛn]; 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".[1][2] Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.[3] Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, and grew up in nearby Yvetot,[4] where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne,[5] ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of town.[6][7] In 1960, she 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).[7] 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 Mariv

Annie Ernaux - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia French writer (born 1940) "},"death_date":{"wt":""},"death_place":{"wt":""},"spouse":{"wt":"{{marriage|Philippe Ernaux|<!-- unknown -->|1980|end=div.}}"},"children":{"wt":"2"},"education":{"wt":"{{Plainlist|\n* [[University of Rouen]]\n* [[University of Bordeaux]]}}"},"awards":{"wt":"[[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (2022)"},"website":{"wt":"{{URL|annie-ernaux.org}}"},"signature":{"wt":"Autographe Annie Ernaux.jpg"}},"i":0}}]}'> Annie Ernaux Ernaux in 2022 Born Annie Thérèse Blanche Duchesne ( 1940-09-01 ) 1 September

Explore this link on the map →

related reading