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Series of events on Annie Ernaux in Oxford

Series of events on Annie Ernaux in Oxford published on

A series of events are organised in honour of contemporary French writer and Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux at Oxford next month:

8 June 2030, 4pm: Screening of The Super 8 Years, followed by a Q&A with director David Ernaux-Briot

9 June 2023: International Colloquium ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing, Politics’

Starting on 8 June 2023: Exhibition ‘Annie Ernaux, Nobel Laureate: Class, Gender, and Life-Writing’

9 June 2023, 7pm: Screening of Happening, by Audrey Diwan

Annie Ernaux, photograph by Duncan Fraser, 1997

Organisation: Eve Morisi (St Hugh’s College, Oxford) in collaboration with Elise Hugueny-Léger (University of St Andrews), Ann Jefferson (University of Oxford) and Lyn Thomas (University of Sussex). Admission to these events is free, but registration for the film screenings is required.

Source: Eve Morisi.

Photo credit: Duncan Fraser.

Annie Ernaux in conversation with Sally Rooney, Charleston Festival

Annie Ernaux in conversation with Sally Rooney, Charleston Festival published on

Annie Ernaux will be in conversation with Sally Rooney at the Charleston Festival on 29 May 2023.

‘In a rare visit to the UK, iconic French author Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, joins us for a very special afternoon looking back on a career spanning over five decades.

One of the greatest authors writing today, Ernaux famously looks to her own life in her books, writing in her distinctively clean and brutally honest style. In conversation with Sally Rooney, bestselling author of ‘Normal People’, she reflects on a life writing about life and her own working-class upbringing.’

In partnership with the Institut Français.

(Source: Charleston festival)

‘Annie Ernaux and us’ at the French Institute, Edinburgh

‘Annie Ernaux and us’ at the French Institute, Edinburgh published on

The Scottish French Institute will celebrate Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The event will emphasise the universal dimension of Ernaux’s work started in the 1970s and focus on the reader’s experience. Book excerpts will be read to the audience, and a discussion will examine some of the key themes in Ernaux’s work, at the crossroad between literature, sociology, history, politics and feminism. Attendants will comment on the significance of her texts in their lives.

Participants: Fabien Arribert-Narce (Edinburgh), Tamzin Elliott (Edinburgh), Catherine Guiat (IFE), Elise Hugueny-Léger (St-Andrews), Caroline Verdier (Strathclyde), Ed Welch (Aberdeen)

Annie Ernaux and us, Thursday 26 January at 6pm

Discussion in French, Q&A in French or English

FREE EVENT
Booking in advance is advised.
Book your ticket online

(Source: Institut Francais d’Ecosse, http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Annie-Ernaux-and-us.html)

Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in Literature published on

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Literature Nobel Prize to Annie Ernaux. Their announcements reads: “Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.”

Un grand bravo, Annie!

Publication of ‘Getting Lost’

Publication of ‘Getting Lost’ published on

 

Today we’re seeing the publication of Getting Lost, the translation of Ernaux’s Se perdre (2001) – the diary written at the time of her romance with a Russian diplomat. Translated by Alison L. Strayer for the first time, Getting Lost is being published by Fitzcarraldo editions in the UK and by Seven Stories Press in the USA.

‘L’événement’/ ‘Happening’ wins Golden Lion

‘L’événement’/ ‘Happening’ wins Golden Lion published on

Audrey Diwan’s ‘Happening’ (L’événement) has won the Golden Lion in Venice for best film. Adapted from Ernaux’s autobiographical account, the film features Anamaria Vartolomei as Anne Duchesne, a student seeking a back-street abortion at a time when it was illegal in France.