A Girl's Story
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, and then he moves on, leaving her without a “master,” bereft.
Now, 50 years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.
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April 7, 2020
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