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Annie Ernaux

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Born

in Lillebonne, France

Website

https://www.annie-ernaux.org/

Genre

Memoir, Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

Georges Perec ...more

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The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place. ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 235,400 ratings · 31,878 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Happening by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 48,051 ratings — published 2000 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Years by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Alison L. Strayer (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 31,597 ratings — published 2008 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 33,193 ratings — published 1991 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Tanya Leslie (Translator), Francine Prose (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 25,845 ratings — published 1983 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Alison L. Strayer (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 14,402 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 13,213 ratings — published 1988 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shame by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 12,078 ratings — published 1997 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Young Man by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Alison Strayer (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 10,916 ratings — published 2022 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Linda Coverdale (Translator), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 6,924 ratings — published 1981 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Possession by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author), Anna Moschovakis (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 5,441 ratings — published 2002 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

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“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

tags: blog, writers, writing

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“She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.”
― Annie Ernaux

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