Annie Ernaux

Annie Duchesne, known as Annie Ernaux, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne, in Normandy, and grew up in Yvetot, where her parents ran a café-grocery in a working-class district. She passed the agrégation in modern literature in 1971 and taught French at secondary school, notably in Annecy, then at the Centre national d'enseignement à distance, until 2000. Her work, largely autobiographical, examines personal memory and the social background she comes from. In 2022 she was the first Frenchwoman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• NarrativeA Man's PlaceLa PlaceAnnie Ernaux · 1983Literature