Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Audrey Diwan’s adaptation of Happening won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. In 2022, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘The author of one of the most important oeuvres in French literature, Annie Ernaux’s work is as powerful as it is devastating, as subtle as it is seething.’— Édouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Audrey Diwan’s adaptation of Happening won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. In 2022, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘The author of one of the most important oeuvres in French literature, Annie Ernaux’s work is as powerful as it is devastating, as subtle as it is seething.’— Édouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Audrey Diwan’s adaptation of Happening won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. In 2022, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘The author of one of the most important oeuvres in French literature, Annie Ernaux’s work is as powerful as it is devastating, as subtle as it is seething.’— Édouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy