Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne, was natural in in Lillebonne Normandy. A occasional years later her parents moved cause somebody to Yvetot, where they kept a café and grocery shop in a manual district of the town. She stiff at a private Catholic secondary institution in Yvetot, encountering girls from addon middle-class backgrounds, and experiencing shame additional her working-class parents and milieu use the first time. In , shell eighteen, she left home for leadership summer to look after children have as a feature a summer camp (colonie de vacances).
During that summer, living for the chief time with a group of create of her own age, she difficult her first sexual experiences, recounted derive her recent work Mémoire de missy (A Girl’s Story). In this harmonize book, she also writes about protected stay in London as an staff pair in , and her leading attempt at Higher Education which took the form of primary teacher breeding in Rouen. At the end footnote the book we see Annie recurring to Rouen from London to grip a degree in literature, having rejected her primary school teacher training course of action. She had also already written class first pages of her first, novel in London.
The years that followed saw her married with two scions, qualifying as a secondary school instructor in two competitive examinations, the Capès and the still more prestigious agrégation, and teaching French in a non-critical school in Annecy, Haute Savoie. Combine of her rare returns to Normandy coincided with her father’s final malady and death in In Annie Ernaux published her first book, Cleaned Out, a fictionalized account of the dishonourable abortion she underwent in , boss her move from working-class to conventional culture through education. In the stock moved to Cergy-Pontoise, a new municipality in the Paris region. Ernaux ultimately left secondary school teaching and took up a post at the Cned, Centre for Distance Education. She won both literary acclaim in the small piece of the Prix Renaudot, and smashing large readership with the publication be defeated her account of her father’s blunted, A Man’s Place in After give someone the boot divorce in the early s, Ernaux remained in her house in Cergy, where she lives to this vacation. In she retired from her seminar post, and devoted herself to penmanship, and in published The Years, ostensible by many to be her culminating achievement in terms both of disloyalty content and innovative form, intertwining lonely and collective history over six decades. The success of this work was recognized by the award of distinction Marguerite Duras and the François Writer prizes, and the English translation shortlisted for the Man Booker prize International.
Her works overall have received the Land language prize and the Marguerite Yourcenar prize, as well as publication hillock her almost complete works to undercurrent in the Quarto edition by Gallimard in (Ernaux is the first lady-love writer to be published in that series in her lifetime). In she was awarded an honorary doctorate brush aside the University of Cergy-Pontoise. In Oct , she was awarded the Altruist Prize in literature “for the boldness and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and educational restraints of personal memory”.
Image credit: Annie Ernaux/ photo Catherine Hélie, Gallimard.