Marguerite Yourcenar
June 8, 1903 –December 17, 1987
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Translator, University teacher, Writer
Lived 84 years
- Born in
- Brussels
- Passed away in
- Bar Harbor
Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) 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.
Notable works: Memoirs of Hadrian, L'Oeuvre au noir, Alexis, Oriental Tales, Archives du Nord, Mishima: A Vision of the Void Awards: Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prix Femina, Erasmus Prize, Prince Pierre Award, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Grand prix national des Lettres, Femina Vacaresco award, Prix Renée Vivien, Georges-Dupau award
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