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Annie Ernaux

1940 - Today

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Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (French: [ɛʁno]; née Duchesne [dyʃɛn]; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was 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". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Ernaux is the 225th most popular writer (down from 152nd in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from France (down from 175th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Annie Ernaux ranks 225 out of 7,302. Before her are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Torquato Tasso, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Lu Xun, Stanisław Lem, and Anacreon. After her are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Tristan Tzara, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John the Evangelist, Pliny the Younger, and Nelly Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Annie Ernaux ranks 15. Before her are Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Anthony Fauci, Chuck Norris, Brian Josephson, Zodiac Killer, and Constantine II of Greece. After her are Nursultan Nazarbayev, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Ringo Starr, Stuart Sutcliffe, Gao Xingjian, and Raul Julia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Annie Ernaux ranks 263 out of 6,770. Before her are Arsène Wenger (1949), Louis VI of France (1081), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), François Truffaut (1932), Philip III of France (1245), and Letizia Ramolino (1750). After her are Saint Roch (1295), François Boucher (1703), Charles the Simple (879), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Philip I of France (1052).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Annie Ernaux ranks 43. Before her are Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Mistral (1830), George Sand (1804), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894). After her are Prosper Mérimée (1803), Germaine de Staël (1766), Pierre Corneille (1606), Patrick Modiano (1945), Alphonse Daudet (1840), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613).

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