Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar
Yourcenar in 1982
Yourcenar in 1982
BornMarguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
(1903-06-08)8 June 1903
Brussels, Belgium
Died17 December 1987(1987-12-17) (aged 84)
Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • poet
Nationality
  • French
  • American
Notable worksMémoires d'Hadrien
Notable awards
PartnersGrace Frick (1937–1979; Frick's death)
Jerry Wilson (1980–1986; his death)

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: /ˈjʊərsənɑːr, ˈjʊkənɑːr/,[1][2] US: /ˌjʊərsəˈnɑːr/;[3] 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.[4]

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  2. ^ "Yourcenar, Marguerite". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Yourcenar". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Nomination archive – Marguerite Yourcenar". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 January 2024.