Writing, The Other Life (texts And Art By And About Annie Ernaux)

By (author) Ernaux Annie; Edited by Fort, Pierre-Louis; Translated by Lewis Sophie; Translated by Ramadan Emma; Translated by Schwartz, Ros; Translated by Simon Dan; Translated by Strayer Alison L.; Translated by Wynne Frank
Magisterial in scope and size, Annie Ernaux: Writing, The Other Life was compiled and edited by Pierre-Louis Fort and was first published in France by Éditions de L’Herne in 2022, a few months before she received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The anthology includes twenty-four previously unpublished Ernaux pieces, as well as literary criticism, essays, interviews, diary entries, a song by Jeanne Cherhal, newspaper clippings, a comic strip by Aurélia Aurita, letters from Simone de Beauvoir. Never before published in English, this beautifully visual collection includes an 8-page color photo insert with images, handwritten manuscript pages, and drawings sprinkled throughout. It is the fruit of collaboration between six celebrated translators and a groundbreaking work of scholarship and rumination.