Books of Annie Ernaux in order

January 28, 2023 by Mylene in Books in order

Annie Ernaux is a French writer born in Normandy and having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022 for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory”.

Annie Ernaux writes about real life. She does not compose fiction, she tries to apprehend reality in its most concrete manifestations. Below is the chronological order of Annie Ernaux’s books and writings.

All Annie Ernaux Books in Order

• Les armoires vides – 1974
• Ce qu’ils disent ou rien – 1977
• A frozen woman (La Femme gelée) – 1981
• A Man’s Place (La place) – 1983
• A woman’s story (Une femme) 1988
• Passion simple – 1992
• Journal du dehors – 1993
• Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit – 1997
• La Honte – 1997
• Happening (L’Événement) – 2000
• La Vie extérieure – 2000
• Se Perdre – 2001
• L’Occupation – 2002
• L’Usage de la photo – 2005
• The years (Les Années) – 2008
• L’Autre Fille – 2011
• L’Atelier noir – 2011
• Retour à Yvetot – 2013
• Regarde les lumières mon amour – 2014
• Mémoire de fille – 2016
• Hôtel Casanova – 2020
• Le jeune homme – 2022

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If you want to start by reading your first Annie Ernaux, you can refer to this selection of 5 books of Annie Ernaux.

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