Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux , born with Lillebonne on September 1st 1940, is a French écrivaine .

Incorporated and professor of modern letters maintaining with the retirement, Annie Ernaux passed his childhood and his youth to Yvetot, in Normandy. It was born in a rather modest social environment: his/her parents were initially workmen, then small shopkeepers. Contrary to her parents, Annie Ernaux went regularly to school and learned well. She made her studies with the Université of Rouen.

In 1984 it obtained the Prix Renaudot for one of its works in autobiographical matter, the Place . Very early in her literary career, Annie Ernaux gave up the fiction to return inlassablement on autobiographical material consisted her childhood in the coffee-grocer parental of Yvetot. With crossed experiment historical and experiment individual, its writing, stripped of any ornament stylistic, dissects social rise of its parents ( the Place , Shame ), his adolescence ( what they say or nothing ), its marriage ( the cold Woman ), its abortion ( the Event ), the disease of Alzheimer of his/her mother ( I did not leave my night ), then the death of his/her mother ( a woman ), her breast cancer ( the Use of the photograph , in collaboration with Marc Marie). She writes in the language of this working and country world Norman which was it his until the eighteen years age, age to which she started, in its turn, to rise socially.

She also wrote the Writing like a knife with Frederic-Yves Jeannet.

Works

the empty Cupboards , Paris, Gallimard, 1974
the Place , Paris, Gallimard, 1984
the cold Woman , Paris, Gallimard, 1981
a Woman , Paris, Gallimard, 1989
what they say or nothing , Paris, Gallimard, 1977
simple Passion , Paris, Gallimard, 1991
Journal of the outside , Paris, Gallimard, 1993
Shame , Paris, Gallimard, 1997
I did not leave my night , Paris, Gallimard, 1997
external Life , Paris, Gallimard, 2000
the Event , Paris, Gallimard, 2000
to lose , Paris, Gallimard, 2001
the Occupation , Paris, Gallimard, 2002
the Use of the photograph , in collaboration with Marc Marie, Paris, Gallimard, 2005

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