Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Annie Ernaux across 4 places, from 1940 to 2022.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory".Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Annie Ernaux was documented, and when
1940year
Lillebonneattested“Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux, born Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne, ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of…”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
1940year
Normandyattested“Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux, born Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne, ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of…”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
1971year
Franceattested“Upon returning to France, she studied at the universities of Rouen and then Bordeaux, qualified as a schoolteacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971.”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
2022year
Parisattested“She has been a resident of Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the Paris suburbs, since the mid-1970s, and was still living there as of 2022.”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
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1960 to 2016period
Londonmentioned“In 1960, she travelled to London, England, where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016's Mémoire de fille (A Girl's Story).”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
1976year
Cergy-Pontoisementioned“Ernaux wrote her second book (Do What They Say or Else) in 1976, shortly after moving to Cergy-Pontoise.”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
1984year
Francementioned“In 1984, she won the Renaudot Prize for another of her works La Place (A Man's Place), an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequen…”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
2019year
Israelmentioned“In 2019, Ernaux signed a letter calling on a French state-owned broadcasting network not to air the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Israel that year.”source: Wikipedia: Annie Ernaux
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