La Place

Annie Ernaux is a French writer born in 1940 in Lillebonne, Normandy. She grew up in the working-class town of Yvetot, where her parents ran a café and grocery store, and studied at the universities of Rouen and Bordeaux, qualifying as a schoolteacher. Beginning her literary career in 1974, she shifted to autobiography, blending personal memory with sociological insights in works exploring class, family, sexuality, and French society. Read more →