Annie Ernaux – a Global Perspective

From 2 to 4 October 2024, the Institut français d’Écosse will celebrate the work of French author Annie Ernaux, awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Join us for an exceptional day of conferences on Thursday 3 October in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the University of St. Andrews. Annie Ernaux herself will answer questions from the audience during a livestream conference.

Audiences will be able to (re)discover the documentary The Super 8 Years (2022) directed by Annie Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot, a wistful cine-memoir composed of super-8 family footage shot between 1972 and 1981. We will also be showing Audrey Diwan’s Happening (2021), an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s. This film won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Anamaria Vartolomei.