Annie Ernaux is a French writer, born Annie Duchesne on 1 September 1940 in Lillebonne, Normandy, and raised in Yvetot, where her parents ran a café-grocery. She qualified as a teacher of modern literature and taught for more than thirty years. Beginning with Cleaned Out (Les Armoires vides, 1974), she has written a body of autobiographical work that rejects fiction to examine memory, social class and women's lives, including A Man's Place (La Place, Prix Renaudot 1984), A Woman's Story, Simple Passion, Happening and The Years (Les Années, 2008). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
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Annie Ernaux is a French writer, born Annie Duchesne on 1 September 1940 in Lillebonne, Normandy, and raised in Yvetot, where her parents ran a café-grocery. She qualified as a teacher of modern literature and taught for more than thirty years. Beginning with Cleaned Out (Les Armoires vides, 1974), she has written a body of autobiographical work that rejects fiction to examine memory, social class and women's lives, including A Man's Place (La Place, Prix Renaudot 1984), A Woman's Story, Simple Passion, Happening and The Years (Les Années, 2008). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
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