Happening
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
"Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment."
--The New York Times
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.
This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located…
$19.95
May 14, 2019
Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high 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. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman’s Story was a New York Times Notable Book.
Writing, the Other Life
Annie Ernaux
The Other Girl
Annie Ernaux
The Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux
The Young Man
Annie Ernaux
I Will Write to Avenge My People
Annie Ernaux
Getting Lost
Annie Ernaux
Exteriors
Annie Ernaux
A Girl's Story
Annie Ernaux
Happening
Annie Ernaux
The Years
Annie Ernaux
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie
The Possession
Annie Ernaux; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
A Woman's Story
Annie Ernaux; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie