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The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir, spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [1] [2] [3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."
The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each ...
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It’s a new chapter for French writer Annie Ernaux. The author renowned for her deeply personal books became the 17th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature in the award’s 119-year ...
5/5 A stage version of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece, in which five women play the author throughout her life, manages the extraordinary feat of intricately telling the story of a ...
Yes, awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to Ernaux, a chronicler of illegal abortion, is a political move. But it's also a victory for literature
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (French:; née Duchesne; 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".
The English-language debut of the late French author's second novel reinforces her revival — and her influence on women writing with brutal frankness.