Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer, professor of literature, and Nobel laureate who was born in Lillebonne, Normandy. She is known for her autobiographical fictions that address significant sociological concepts. Ernaux attended the private Catholic secondary school in Yvetot, where her parents used to run a café and a grocery shop. Confronting classmates with middle-class backgrounds made her aware of the social disparity that existed and according to her younger self the indignity of coming from a working class family. Her first book, Cleaned Out, was published in 1974, when she was married with two children and teaching...