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Marguerite Yourcenar | |
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.jpg) Yourcenar in 1982 | |
| Born | Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour 8 June 1903 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 17 December 1987 (aged 84) Bar Harbor, Maine, US |
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| Notable works | Mémoires d'Hadrien |
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| Partner | Grace Frick (1937–1979; Frick's 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. She was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.[4]
- ^ "Yourcenar". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ "Yourcenar, Marguerite". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link]
- ^ "Yourcenar". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ "Nomination archive – Marguerite Yourcenar". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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