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Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: / ˈ j ʊər s ə n ɑːr, ˈ j ʊ k ə n ɑːr /, US: / ˌ j ʊər s ə ˈ n ɑːr /, 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.
Jun 4, 2024 · Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40.
Marguerite Yourcenar, original name Marguerite de Crayencour, was a french novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40.
Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a French-language novel by the Belgian-born writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published in France in 1951, the book was a critical and commercial success.
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 honor has been hanging around the neck of her ...
The Marguerite yourcenar museum, which was found by Louis Sonneville in 1985, is a place of remembrance where visitors can discover the life and works of the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (in 1980). It is located in the centre of the village, near the church.
Marguerite Yourcenar’s intellectual vigor and curiosity are still prodigious, despite age and an open-heart operation two years ago. She has just translated James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner and Yukio Mishima’s Five Modern No Plays into French, from the original Engish and Japanese, helped for the latter by her friend J.M. Shisagi, Mishima ...
May 21, 2018 · Marguerite Yourcenar. French novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist, world traveller, and translator Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was the first woman elected to the French Academy. Marguerite Yourcenar was born on June 8, 1903, and baptized Marguerite Antoinette Ghislaine.
Jul 7, 2021 · Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987) was a French short story writer, novelist and essayist known as Marguerite Yourcenar. Best known for her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, she was the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française.
Memoirs of Hadrian, historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951 as Mémoires d’Hadrien. In the book, Yourcenar creates a vivid and historically accurate portrait of the 2nd-century Roman Empire under Hadrian’s rule.
