Annie Ernaux

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September 01, 1940 in Lillebonne, France

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Annie Ernaux is a French writer.

She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 984 ratings · 130 reviews · 36 distinct works

	La place 3.17 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1988 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Les Années 4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cleaned Out 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Shame by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Possession by Annie Ernaux, Anna Moschovakis (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	My rating:
	L'Evénement 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Man's Place 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.”
― Annie Ernaux

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“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

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“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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