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Annie Ernaux (born in Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime on 1 September 1940) is a French writer.

She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 [1] for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin.

As a child, Annie Ernaux lived in Yvetot in Normandy. Very early in her career, she turned away from fiction to concentrate on autobiography. Her work combines historic and individual experiences.She charts her parents' social progression (La place, La honte), her adolescence (Ce qu’ils disent ou rien), her marriage (La femme gelée), her abortion (L’événement), Alzheimer's disease (Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit), the death of her mother (Une femme) and breast cancer (L’usage de la photo).Ernaux also wrote L'écriture comme un couteau with Frédéric-Yves Jeannet.

Her latest novel "Les années" (Gallimard, 2008) is considered her 'magnum opus' and was very well received by the French critics. In this latter book Ernaux places herself into third person perspective (Elle) for the first time and gives a vivid look at French society after the Second World War - up till now - through the images kept, and words spoken by this same woman. A poignant social history once again of a woman and the society she lived in, a woman who has looked death in the eye and realises and describes what will disappear, and how relative that is, if she would disappear.

Many of her works have been translated into English and published by Seven Stories Press.

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Total Books: 94
The Use of Photography
2024 - The Use of Photography (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781644214138
ISBN-10: 164421413X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Annie Ernaux The Boxed Set
2023 - Annie Ernaux the Boxed Set (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781644213605
ISBN-10: 1644213605
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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The Young Man
2023 - The Young Man (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781644213209
ISBN-10: 1644213206
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Look at the Lights My Love
2023 - Look at the Lights My Love [The Margellos World Republic of Letters] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780300268218
ISBN-10: 0300268211
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Getting Lost
2022 - Getting Lost (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781644212196
ISBN-10: 1644212196
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 0.5/5 Stars.
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A Girl's Story
2020 - A Girl's Story (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781609809515
ISBN-10: 1609809513
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Htel Casanova et autres textes brefs
2020 - Htel Casanova Et Autres Textes Brefs (Other)
ISBN-13: 9782072884412
ISBN-10: 2072884411
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Happening
2019 - Happening (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781609809485
ISBN-10: 1609809483
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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La vergogna
2018 - La Vergogna (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788899793593
ISBN-10: 889979359X
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The Years
2017 - The Years (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781609807870
ISBN-10: 1609807871
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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La Place
2017 - La Place (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781138427372
ISBN-10: 1138427373
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Mmoire de fille
2016 - Mmoire De Fille [Gallimard Blanche - French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782070145973
ISBN-10: 2070145972
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Woman's Story
2014 - A Woman's Story (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780704373440
ISBN-10: 0704373440
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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A Man's Place
2012 - A Man's Place (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9781609804039
ISBN-10: 1609804031
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Ecrire LA Vie
2011 - Ecrire La VIe [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782070132188
ISBN-10: 2070132188
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Things Seen
2010 - Things Seen [French Voices] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780803210776
ISBN-10: 0803210779
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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The Possession
2008 - The Possession (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781583228555
ISBN-10: 1583228551
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Les Annees
2008 - Les Annees (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782070402472
ISBN-10: 2070402479
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Gesichter einer Frau
2007 - Gesichter Einer Frau (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783442453634
ISBN-10: 3442453631
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L'usage de la photo
2006 - L'usage De La Photo [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782070320981
ISBN-10: 2070320987
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Profil D'une Oeuvre
2005 - Profil D'une Oeuvre [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782218750885
ISBN-10: 2218750880
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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2001 - Se Perdre [French Edition] (Hardcover)Paperback
2000 - La VIe Exterieure [French Edition] (Hardcover)
2000 - Shame (Paperback)Hardcover
1987 - Place La [Methuen's Twentieth Century French Texts] (Paperback)
Femme Gelee [Folio Series No. 1818] (Paperback)
La Honte [Garnier-Flammarion] (Paperback)
Os Anos [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)Paperback
O Acontecimento [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)
Pura Pasion [Andanzas - Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)
El Acontecimiento [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
El Lugar [Andanzas - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)