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Marguerite Yourcenar

  • Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
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Yourcenar, Marguerite
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Gender
Female
Date of birth
1903-06-08
Place of birth
Brussels
Date of death
1987-12-17
Place of death
Bar Harbor

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Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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French novelist and essayist.

Last modified: 2024-02-18 (revision #173403)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Essais et mémoiresHardcover97820701121281991-09-17
Œuvres romanesquesHardcover97820701101861982-11-17
Der FangschußHardcover3-937793-11-92004
Œuvres romanesques – Essais et mémoires (coffret)Hardcover97820701175982017-10-12
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105154898
Wikidata ID
Q163118

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