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Annie Ernaux’s name has been among the favorites to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for years, which she finally won in 2022, an award that joins the Ranadout, the French Language, the Strega, and the Formentor.
Born on September 1, 1940, in Lillebonne, Normandy (France), Ernaux is one of the most recognized leftist writers of the European literary scene, besides being a professor and professor of modern literature.
The daughter of merchants, she spent her childhood and adolescence in the Norman town of Yvetot, until she moved to Rouen to study literature at university.
She devoted himself to teaching, first at a high school in Bonneville, before she began publishing her works.
The first was in 1974, “Les armoires vides” (“The empty closets”). She began to write fiction, a literary genre that she left to switch to autobiography, because she preferred to tell stories that occurred during the stages of her life.
For the whole of her work, essentially autobiographical and intimate, she has received several awards such as the French Language Prize in 2008, the Marguerite Yourcenar in 2018 and in Spain, the Premio Formentor de las Letras 2019, awarded all three for her work as a whole.
Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as “L’evenement”, directed by Audrey Diwan, which won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2021.
It is precisely “L’événement” and “Les Années” that are her most translated books into other languages.
In addition, Ernaux has participated in the adaptation of her texts to the theater, from “Passion simple” to “La Vié extérieure” or “Le monologue de la femme gelée”.
Beyond her literary side, Ernaux has publicly displayed her radical left-wing activism, with support for neo-communist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election.
And in 2018, she was one of the signatories of a petition of Cultural personalities to boycott the France-Israel cultural season.
Ernaux, a mother of two, currently lives in Cergy, near Paris, according to her publisher in Spain, Cabaret Voltaire.
