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Marguerite Yourcenar
AuthorBooks · Second hand1903-1987
Marguerite Yourcenar 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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About Marguerite Yourcenar
Birth
1903
Death
1987
First book
1929
Years writing
97
Marguerite Yourcenar 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.
Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman ever elected to the prestigious Académie française in 1980.
Born in Brussels, this prolific author held French, Belgian, and American citizenship.
Her masterpiece, Memoirs of Hadrian, is renowned for its classical style and profound historical reconstruction.
Her literary talent spanned multiple genres, from novels and poetry to essays and literary criticism.
Her writing was nourished by a fascinating blend of Eastern wisdom and Greco-Latin philosophy.
