Born in Lillebonne, Normandy, in 1940, Ernaux sees herself as fundamentally a “child of war”, conscious from a young age of history with a capital H. Both the large-scale and finer textures of everyday life are of equal concern to her. “Maybe that’s why I’m so obsessed with the quest for a collective memory,” she suggests.

AnnieErnaux:Un engagementd’écriture/ Pierre-Louis Fort etViolaineHoudart-Merot(éds.). –Paris :Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015 Tartaglione, Nancy (11 September 2021). "Venice Film Festival: 'L'Événement' Wins Golden Lion, 'Hand Of God' Takes Grand Jury Prize, Jane Campion Best Director, Penelope Cruz Best Actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal Best Screenplay – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021 . Retrieved 11 September 2021. a b c "Biography". annie-ernaux.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. Annie Ernaux. Les Années". Le Télégramme (in French). 3 May 2009. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012 . Retrieved 31 October 2010. Things Seen. Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky. University of Nebraska Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0803228153.The French writer Annie Ernauxwas born in 1940 and grew up in the small town ofYvetot in Normandy, where her parents had a combined grocery store andcafé. Her setting was poor but ambitious, with parents who had pulledthemselves up from proletarian survival to a bourgeois life, where the memories of beaten earth floors never disappeared but where politics was seldom broached. In her writing,Ernauxconsistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strongdisparities regarding gender,languageand class.Her path to authorship was long and arduous. LesannéesSuper-8. Documentary. Directors: AnnieErnaux– DavidErnaux-Briot. Writer AnnieErnaux. (Voice) :AnnieErnaux. 2022 Works in English Perhaps the fullest expression of that obsession was her breakout work in the English-speaking world, The Years (2008). It was an attempt to offer a faithful account of an entire generation in France – from the outbreak of the second world war to the birth of the internet – braiding one woman’s impressions of the era (her own) through a broader swirl of imprints made by advertising, world events, and period-specific cinema and music. Ernaux did no research for the book; she simply, she explains, activated her “internal cinema” for each specific period she wanted to recall. Her process places extraordinary faith in the power of subjective memory, an approach she began in 1983 with A Man’s Place. She has expressedreservations about the potentially “falsifying” force of fiction. Her fidelity is above all to accuracy, to describing events she has observed or closely experienced herself with as much precision as she can summon.

a b Shaffi, Sarah (6 October 2022). "Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. a b c Lodge, Guy (25 September 2020). " 'Simple Passion' Review: Explicit But Not Exploitative Erotic Drama Benefits From a Sharp Female Gaze". Variety . Retrieved 5 February 2023. The Possession/ translated by AnnaMoschovakis. – NewYork :Seven Stories Press, 2008. – Translation of:L’occupation AnnieErnaux: semettreen gagepourdirelemonde/ ThomasHunkeleret Marc-HenrySoulet(éds.). –Genève :MëtisPresses, 2012 Look at the Lights, My Love. Translated by Alison L. Strayer. Yale University Press. 2023. ISBN 978-0300268218.

Other books by Annie Ernaux

Prix Marguerite Yourcenar 2017: Annie Ernaux". Scam (in French). 30 November 2017. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. In the early 1970s, Ernaux taught at a lycée in Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, [9] at the college of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise, before joining the National Centre for Distance Education, [10] where she was employed for 23 years. [11] Literary career [ edit ]

The book is also a bit of a meta-novel. She tells us she is writing the book as therapy to get over him. There's an extended analogy between her obsession with writing a book and trying to make it perfect with the way she tried to make her relationship perfect. Some passages about this: Jellenik, Cathy, Rewritingrewriting:MargueriteDuras, AnnieErnaux, and MarieRedonnet. –Bern :Peter Lang, 2007 Fuller, Graham (6 February 2021). "Simple Passion review – a case of female amour fou". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 5 February 2023.Do What They Say or Else/ translated by Christopher Beach and Carrie Noland. –Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, 2022. – Translation of: Cequ’ilsdisentourien Works in Swedish Rosser, Michael (18 September 2020). "World premieres line up for competition in San Sebastian 2020". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020 . Retrieved 2 February 2023. She raises an interesting question. Once you are past a reality that happened to you, and then you have written about it, what’s the difference between having experienced something and just having read about it in the first place? The films of the Official Selection 2020". Cannes Film Festival. 1 July 2020 [3 June 2020] . Retrieved 5 June 2020. Passion Perfect/ translated by Tanya Leslie. –London :Quartet, 1993. – Translation of Passion simple