Overview
For fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of interviews, writing by critics and journalists, with diary excerpts and unpublished texts by Ernaux herself, also includes visual material like drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings.
Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, The Other Life was compiled and edited by Pierre-Louis Fort and was first published in France by Ćditions de L'Herne in 2022, a few months before she received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The anthology includes twenty-four previously unpublished Ernaux pieces, as well as literary criticism, essays, interviews, diary entries, e song by Jeanne Cherhal, newspaper clippings, a comic strip by AurĆ©lia Aurita, letters from Simone de Beauvoir.
Never before published in English, this beautifully visual collection includes an 8-page color photo insert with images, handwritten manuscript pages, and drawings sprinkled throughout. It is the fruit of collaboration between six celebrated translators and a groundbreaking work of scholarship and rumination.
This book title, Writing, the Other Life (Annie Ernaux and others), ISBN: 9781644214152, by Annie Ernaux, Pierre-Louis Fort, Sophie Lewis, Emma Ramadan, Ros Schwartz, Dan Simon, Alison L. Strayer, Frank Wynne, published by Seven Stories Press (March 4, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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