# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annie-ernaux
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:00.827Z

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name: "Annie Ernaux"
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description: "She strips personal memory down to its social skeleton — class shame, abortion, affairs, her parents' small café — and calls it literature. The Nobel committee called it courage."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Annie Duchesne on 1 September 1940, she grew up in a world split between the working-class café her parents ran and the middle-class education that pulled her away from it. She turned that split into a method: autobiographical writing that reads like sociology, each book dissecting a piece of her life with clinical precision. The approach — no sentiment, no metaphor, just the mechanics of memory and the class structures that shape it — became her signature. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Literature recognized what she'd been doing for decades: uncovering how collective restraints live inside personal experience.