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Happening – Winner Of The 2022 Nobel Prize In Literature

Name: Happening - Winner Of The 2022 Nobel Prize In Literature
SKU: 9781910695838
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By (author) Annie Ernaux, Translated by Tanya Leslie

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In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.

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abortion Annie Ernaux france memoir Nobel Prize nobel prize 2022 nobel prize in literature

ISBN: 9781910695838

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 80

Dimensions: 12.5 × 19.7 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 80 pages
Dimensions 12.5 × 19.7 cm | 0
Publication Date 13 February 2019
Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication City/Country United Kingdom
Language English

About the author

Tanya Leslie

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Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Audrey Diwan's adaptation of Happening won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Inter national Film Festival. In 2022, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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