In twelve short texts written between 1984 and 2006, here is Annie Ernaux at her most incisive and intimate, presenting readers with yet another new experience of the razor’s edge of the author’s sensibility, this time in the form of brief works of fiction or nonfiction.
In “Hotel Casanova,” the...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.
Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008
The Years i...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born.
In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
**Serialized in The New Yorker**
An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories.
Includes 14 color still-life photographs by the...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
"Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment."
--The New York Times
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A New York Times Notable Book
"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews)
Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.
“A sublime book.” —Elle
“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and...
