The Other Girl
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born.
In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years before her own birth. Having believed she was an only child, she learns that she has replaced another daughter—“the little saint,” “the absent one in every conversation,” who lives on in Annie’s parents’ wordless grief.
Taking the form of a letter to the unknown sister, The Other Girl was published in French in 2011 as part of the Affranchis collection (published by les éditions du Nil), which invited writers to…
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September 23, 2025
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