The French author elevates those humdrum, embarrassing or cringeworthy experiences that “high” literature spurns in distaste. She draws from them beauty, dignity and (sometimes) tragedy
is surely the only winner of the Nobel prize in literature to have written nostalgically—even ecstatically—about the London suburb of North Finchley. Her book of 2016, “A Girl’s Story”, is typical of the French writer’s approach. As the author recounts formative late-teenage experiences in Normandy and as an au pair in London, she blends deeply personal memoir with social and historical insight.
Born in Normandy in 1940, Ms Ernaux’s parents ran a café-grocery. She studied in Rouen and Bordeaux, taught in secondary schools and then, for 23 years, worked for a French distance-learning university,. Her shelf of two-dozen books began with fiction but soon moved into a form of creative autobiography in which rigorous, unsparing accounts of private life enter the flow of shared social experience.
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