Annie Ernaux is a French writer and professor of literature. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
Annie Ernaux
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She writes about the tedium of marriage and motherhood, the confusion and ambivalence over her first sexual experience
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The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to French author Annie Ernaux, citing the courage and clinical acuity
Achievements
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She was married to Philippe Ernaux, with whom she has two sons. The couple separated in the early 1980s.
Family
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She qualified as a secondary school teacher in two competitive examinations, the Capès and also was teaching French in a secondary school in Annecy, Haute Savoie
Teaching
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Annie Ernaux was born on 1st September 1940 and her present age is 82 years
Age and Birthdate
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Since the year 1901, 115 nobel prizes in literature have been awarded to writer from across the world
17th woman to win nobel prize
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Annie Ernaux grew up in a small town of Yvetot where her parents owned a grocery store and cafe
Childhood
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Annie Ernaux won the Prix Renaudot in france for her autobiography titled “The Years”.
Awards
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“She teaches me that the world is made to be punched on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back”