Annie Ernaux (Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux) is a French writer and professor of literature and Nobel Laureate who got the Noble Prize in Literature in 2022. she was born on 1st September 1940 in Lillebonne, France.

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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux (Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux) is a French writer and professor of literature and
Nobel Laureate who got the Noble Prize in Literature in 2022. she was born on 1st September
1940 in Lillebonne, France. Her parents ran a cafe and a grocery in a working-class part of
Lillebonne town in Normandy where she was born and grew up. She was educated at the
University of Rouen and then Bordeaux where she qualified as a school teacher and gained a
higher degree in modern literature. She married Philippe Ernaux and has two sons. But the
couple divorced in the early 1980s.
Her Literary Career:-
Her literary career begin in 1974 with "Les Armoires vides" (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical
novel. In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for "La Place" (A Man's Place)it is also an
autobiographical work focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing
up in a small town in France.
In her early stage, she focuses on fictional works but later she turned to autobiographical
novels. In her works, we find historical and individual experiences. As far as her individual
experiences are concerned she portrays her parents' social advancement, her marriage, her
passionate affair with a European man, her abortion, disease, death of her mother, and breast
cancer.
Her literary works are mostly autobiographical and maintain close links with sociology.
Her works include- A man's place (1983), Simple passion (1991), Pura Pasion (1993), A frozen
women (1994), Exteriors (1996), La Honte (1997), I remain in Darkness (1998), La place (1983),
Shame (1998), Happening (2001), The possession (2008), Things seen (2010), The Other Girl
920110, A GIrl's story (2016), Getting lost (2022).
Her first three novels, Cleaned Out(1990), Do What They Say or Else(1977) and A Frozen
Woman(1994), form a trilogy of autobiographical novels. These works broadly detail the
socialization of a working-class girl who has a middle-class education and then marriage.
The central themes of her novels are body and sexuality, intimate relationships, and social
inequality. Her books also explored how shame is built in the female consciousness and how
women censor and judge themselves even in personal spaces such as a diary.
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