Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 Dec 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Belgium, 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 1
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Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 Dec 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Belgium, 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, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3. In 1951, she published, the novel Memoirs of Hadrian, which she had been writing on-and-off for a decade. The novel was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. The novel has become a modern classic.
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