Passion Simple

by Annie Ernaux

Hardcover

About the author

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

Reviews

[Wessel · Rating 3 out of 5]

De protagonist had eigenlijk gewoon een hobby nodig

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

5🌟

C'est du Annie Ernaux 💖

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This passion was a little too simple for my tastes

[coolmariecool · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prix Nobel mérité