Dolorès Marat, La Femme Aux Gants (Woman With Gloves), (1987).
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Ernaux’s sparse writing about everyday encounters gains a new quality against photos from the MEP’s collection
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Writing from lived experience often has legitimacy, but autofiction has fictional elements that trouble the autobiographical pact.
Annie Ernaux.
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Annie Ernaux is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her autofiction masterpiece, The Years, has been called a modern In Search of Lost Time.
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The French writer has won the Nobel for literature for her ascetic approach to writing and fearlessness in covering the personal and taboo.
Annie Ernaux.
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From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.