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Annie Ernaux
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Person

Annie Ernaux

b. 1940

French writer (born 1940)

Born
1 Sept 1940 · Lillebonne
Part ofFrance359 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 99 years
  1. 1 Sept 1940BornBorn in Lillebonne
  2. 1984AwardPrix Renaudot
  3. 1984AwardPrize Maillé Latour Landry
  4. 2008AwardPrix de la langue française
  5. 2008AwardPrix François Mauriac (Aquitaine)
  6. 2008AwardPrix François-Mauriac
  7. 2008AwardPrix Marguerite Duras
  8. 2016AwardStrega Prize
  9. 2019AwardPrix de l’Académie de Berlin
  10. 2019AwardPrix Formentor
  11. 2022AwardNobel Prize in Literature

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – today).

  1. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  2. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  3. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  4. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  5. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  6. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  8. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  10. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  11. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  13. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. 1956Suez Crisis
  15. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  17. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  21. 1968Prague Spring
  22. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  23. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  24. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  25. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  27. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  28. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  29. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  30. 1985Schengen Agreement
  31. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  32. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  33. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  35. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  37. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  39. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  40. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (French: [ɛʁno]; née Duchesne [dyʃɛn]; 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". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.

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