Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
	Yourcenar in 1982
Born	Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903; Brussels, Belgium
Died	17 December 1987 (aged 84); Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Occupation	Novelist; essayist; poet;
Nationality	French; American;
Notable works	Mémoires d'Hadrien
Notable awards	Académie Française (1980); Erasmus Prize (1983);
Partners	Grace Frick (1937–1979; Frick's death); Jerry Wilson (1980–1986; his death)

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: /ˈjʊərsənɑːr, ˈjʊkənɑːr/, US: /ˌjʊərsəˈnɑːr/; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ^ⓘ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist 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. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.