Annie ernaux

Alexandra Schwartz on the Nobel-winning author of “Happening” and “Simple Passion” discovering, over nearly fifty years, new ways to write about her own life.

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Born into a working-class Catholic family in Normandy in 1940, Annie Ernaux is one of the most popular French writers in the United States.

Read 3,032 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Il n'est jamais entré dans un musée, il ne lisait que Paris-Normandie et se servait de s…

In search of Annie Ernaux

The novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking.

She was a French literary darling. He was a student 30 years her junior. Nobel Prize-winning essayist Annie Ernaux recalls her most thrilling affair.

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The novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking.