The Possession

Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’ Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular  A Man’ s Place  and  A Woman’ s Story,   have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for  A Man's Place  when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a  New York Times  Notable Book and a finalist for the  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize. The English edition of  A Woman’ s Story  was a  New York Times  Notable Book.