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    Marguerite Yourcenar

    French novelist and essayist ()

    Marguerite Yourcenar

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    BornMarguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
    ()8 June
    Brussels, Belgium
    Died17 December () (aged&#;84)
    Bar Harbor, Maine, US
    Occupation
    Nationality
    Notable worksMémoires d'Hadrien
    Notable awards
    PartnersGrace Frick (–; Frick's death)
    Jerry Wilson (–; his death)

    Marguerite Yourcenar (,[1][2];[3]French:[maʁɡ(ə)ʁitjuʁsənaʁ]ⓘ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June – 17 December ) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in In , she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[4]

    Biography

    Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, as Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislain