biography
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Yourcenar, Marguerite
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pseudonym of Marguerite de Crayencour
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pronunciation:
[yersenah(r)]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1903–87)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Brussels, Belgium. Educated at home in a wealthy and cultured household, she travelled widely, and wrote a series of distinguished novels, plays, poems, and essays. Her novels, many of them historical reconstructions, include Les Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951, Memoirs of Hadrian) and L'oeuvre au noir (1968, trans The Abyss). She emigrated to the USA in 1939, was granted dual US and French nationality in 1979, and in 1980 became the first woman writer to be elected to the Académie Française. |
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