The Greatest Books: Written by Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

Nationality: French
Description: Marguerite Yourcenar (French pronunciation: [maʁɡəʁit juʁsənaʁ]; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, 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.
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Gender: Female

The best books of all time by Marguerite Yourcenar

219 . Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. The book was first published in France in French in 1951 as Mémoires d'Had...

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2384 . The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Abyss (French: L'Œuvre au noir) is a novel by the Belgian-French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Its narrative centers on the life and death of Zeno, a physician, philosopher, scientist and alchem...

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