User:Igarbani/Annie Ernaux

Template:Paronyme Annie Ernaux (maiden name Duchesne) born September 1, 1940 in Lillebonne ( Seine-Maritime ) is a French literary author, and professor. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, has deep sociological roots.

Biography

Childhood and education

Annie Duchesne grew up in Yvetot in Normandy . Born in a modest social environment, from parents who were first workers, then small business-owners who ran a café-grocery store, Annie Ernaux studied at the University of Rouen and Bordeaux . She successively became a professor, then earned a doctorate of modern literature (1971). She worked for a time on a thesis project, unfinished, on Marivaux .

In the early 1970s, she taught at the Bonneville lycée , at the College of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise before joining the National Center for Distance Learning ([./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_national_d'enseignement_%C3%A0_distance Centre national d'enseignement à distance] - CNED) .

Literary career

Annie Ernaux started her literatury career in 1974 with T [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Armoires_vides Les Armoires vides] (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her autobiographical works, La Place (A Man's Place).

[./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ann%C3%A9es_(roman_d'Annie_Ernaux) Les Années] (The Years), a vast epic that runs from the post - war era to the present, published in 2008, won several awards in 2008 and 2009. That same year 2008, she received the Prix de la langue française for all of her work .

In 2011, Annie Ernaux publishes L'Autre Fille, a letter addressed to her sister, who died before her birth , as well as L'Atelier noir, which brings together various notebooks consisting of notes, plans and related reflections. to the writing of his works. The same year, an anthology entitled Writing Life appears in the collection " Quarto ". In it, she collects most of her autobiographical writings and offers a notebook of a hundred pages, consisting of photos and excerpts of her unpublished diary.

In April 2016, she again publishes an autobiographical tale, Mémoire de fille, in which, nearly sixty years later, she examines the year of her 18th birthday, in the summer of 1958 , when she has her first sexual relations during a summer camp in the Orne - an experience that will remain for her, as she writes in the book,

"The most shameful memory, more minute and intractable than any others. This memory that is in fact, a special gift of shame"

la grande mémoire de la honte, plus minutieuse, plus intraitable que n'importe quelle autre. Cette mémoire qui est en somme le don spécial de la honte.

In 2017, she is awarded the Marguerite-Yourcenar Prize, by the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors , for the entirety of her work.

In the 2012 presidential election, she supports the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because "he takes up the voice, not only communist, but one that we did not hear anymore" .

On November 30, 2015, she is among the signatories of the Appeal of 58 "We will manifest during the state of emergency " , .

On May 26, 2016, she was among the signatories of a forum against the government's attempt to discredit the movement against the reform of the Labor Code through legal proceedings .

On June 19, 2017, she co-signs in Le Monde a tribune of support to Houria Bouteldja, author of Les Blancs, les juifs et nous (2016), spokesperson for the Indigenous of the Republic, a group considered by many sources as anti-Semitic, homophobic, or anti-feminist . The petition in turn triggers indignant reactions , , , Marianne's Jack Dion describing it as

"Stupefying allegiance to a woman who exposed her racism to everyone"

ahurissant[e] d’allégeance à une dame qui a exposé son racisme au vu et au su de tous.

In May 2018, Annie Ernaux signed a petition in collaboration with influential people to boycott the cross-cultural season "France-Israel", which according to the petition serves as a "showcase" for State of Israel to the detriment of the Palestinian people .

In December 2018, she co-authored a tribune in Libération in support of the movement of yellow vests .

Awards and distinctions

• Prix d'Honneur for the 1977 novel for [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ce_qu'ils_disent_ou_rien Ce qu'ils disent ou rien]
• Renaudot Prize 1984 for La Place
• Prix Marguerite-Duras 2008 for [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ann%C3%A9es_(roman_d'Annie_Ernaux) Les Années]
• Prix François-Mauriac 2008 for [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ann%C3%A9es_(roman_d'Annie_Ernaux) Les Années]
• [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise Prix de la langue française] 2008 for the entirety of her oeuvre
• Doctor honoris causa of the University of Cergy-Pontoise 2014 .
• 2016 European Strega Prize for The Years (translated into Italian as Gli Anni (L'Orma)
• [./https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Marguerite-Yourcenar Prix Marguerite-Yourcenar] 2017, awarded by the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors , for the entirety of her oeuvre
• Premio Hemingway per la letteratura 2018 for the entirety of her oeuvre

In addition, the Annie-Ernaux Award of which she is the "godmother" bears her name. [[Category:French autobiographers]] [[Category:Pages with unreviewed translations]]