Results for "Ernaux, Annie"

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008 The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through... Read More about The Years

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnnie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.“A sublime book.” —Elle“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and ... Read More about The Young Man

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half sh... Read More about Getting Lost

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment."--The New York TimesIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes s... Read More about Happening

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux  A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2023  “Translated from the French with great intelligence and sensitivity by Alison Strayer. . . . Er... Read More about Look at the Lights, My Love (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnother masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.   In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and d... Read More about A Girl's Story