Marguerite Yourcenar
Belgian-French novelist and essayist
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. She was nominated for the... Wikipedia
Born: June 8, 1903, Brussels, Belgium
Died: December 17, 1987 (age 84 years), Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert, ME
Nominations: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française and Prix Goncourt
Full name: Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Notable works: Mémoires d'Hadrien
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Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. She was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize ...
Her masterpiece is Mémoires d'Hadrien, a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoirs of that 2nd-century Roman emperor. Her works were translated by ...
2 days ago · Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française ...
Marguerite Yourcenar has the ardent imagination and clear, intense blue eyes of her Flemish ancestors. The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels— ...
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Feb 6, 2005 · In 1981, six years before her death, Marguerite Yourcenar became the first woman ever inducted into the Académie Française, and that weighty ...
Yves Saint Laurent designed for her a velvet cloak with a shawl to cover her head. “Marguerite's entrance was rather stunning,” wrote the critic Matthieu Galey.
Feb 21, 2024 · Marguerite Yourcenar's seminal novel 'Memoirs Of Hadrian' is being adapted for TV by Francesco Piccolo, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
Compositions by Yourcenar include holograph manuscripts, drawings, typescripts, research notes, lists of corrections for various editions, galley and page ...
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