1. Annie Ernaux worked for a time on a thesis project, unfinished, on Pierre de Marivaux.
14 Facts About Annie Ernaux
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Annie Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides, an autobiographical novel.
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Early in her career, Annie Ernaux turned from fiction to focus on autobiography.
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Annie Ernaux wrote L'ecriture comme un couteau with Frederic-Yves Jeannet.
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On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Annie Ernaux would be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".
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Annie Ernaux is the 16th French writer, and the first Frenchwoman, to receive the literature prize.
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Many of Annie Ernaux's works have been translated into English and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Seven Stories Press.
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Annie Ernaux is one of the seven founding authors from whom the latter Press takes its name.
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Annie Ernaux supported Jean-Luc Melenchon in the 2012 French presidential election.
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Annie Ernaux has repeatedly indicated her support for the BDS movement, a Palestinian-led campaign promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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In 2019, Annie Ernaux signed a letter calling on a French state-owned broadcasting network not to air the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Israel that year.
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Annie Ernaux signed a letter that supported the release of Georges Abdallah, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982 for the assassination of an American military attache, Lt.
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Annie Ernaux said in an interview she was "absolutely in favour of women revolting against this absolute constraint".
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Annie Ernaux has been a resident of Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the Paris suburbs, since the mid-1970s.