Annie Ernaux Biography
Annie Ernaux is a French writer and professor of literature. Annie’s work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Annie 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”.
Annie Ernaux Academic Qualifications
Ernaux completed her studies at the universities in Rouen before moving on to Bordeaux, where she obtained her teaching certification and a higher degree in contemporary literature in 1971. For a while, Annie worked on an incomplete thesis research about Pierre de Marivaux.
Before joining the National Centre for Distance Education (Centre national d’enseignement à distance – CNED), she worked as a teacher at the Bonneville Lycée, the college of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise. She worked there for 23 years.
Annie Ernaux Age
Annie was born on 1 September 1940 in Lillebonne, France . She celebrates her birthday on 1st September every year. She is 83 years old as of 2023.
Annie Ernaux Height
Annie has a standing height of 5 feet 4 inches and weighs around 57 kg.
Annie Ernaux Family
Talking about her family background, she was s born in Lillebonne in Normandy and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents ran a café-cum-grocery store in a working-class part of town. She later travelled to London where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016’s Mémoire de fille (A Girl’s Story).
Annie Ernaux Husband
Talking about her married life, Annie was married to her handsome husband Philippe Ernaux, with whom she has two sons. Unfortunately, the two love birds parted ways in the early 1980s.
Facts About Annie Ernaux
Full Name : Annie Duchesne
Date of Birth : 1 September 1940
Place of Birth : Lillebonne, France
Age : 82 years as of 2022
Height : 5 feet 4 inches
Weight : 57 kg
Father : To be Updated
Mother : To be Updated
Kids : 2
Spouse : Philippe Ernaux (m. 1964; div. 1985)
Nationality : French
Education : University of Rouen Normandy Mont-Saint-Aignan Campus
Awards : Nobel Prize in Literature, Prix Formentor
Nominations : International Booker Prize
Profession : French writer and professor of literature.
Net Worth :
Annie Ernaux Career
She began her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. Annie won won the Renaudot Prize for another of her works La Place (A Man’s Place), an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents’ place of origin back in 1984.
Early on in her career, she turned from fiction to focus on autobiography. Ernaux’s work combines historic and individual experiences. She charts her parents’ social progression (La place, La honte), her teenage years (Ce qu’ils disent ou rien), her marriage (La femme gelée), her passionate affair with an Eastern European man (Passion simple), her abortion (L’événement), Alzheimer’s disease (Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit), the death of her mother (Une femme), and breast cancer (L’usage de la photo).
Before joining the National Centre for Distance Education (Centre national d’enseignement à distance – CNED), she worked as a teacher at the Bonneville Lycée, the college of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise. She worked there for 23 years.
Annie Ernaux Net Worth
Annie has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million. Thanks to her successful career as a writer she has managed to gather all her wealth.