The Possession

About the Author

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Anna Moschovakis is a poet, novelist and translator. She is the author of the novels An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, Participation and Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love. Her translation of David Diop's novel At Night All Blood Is Black won the 2021 International Booker Prize. She has also translated Albert Cossery's The Jokers, Annie Ernaux's The Possession, Bresson on Bresson, and (with Christine Schwartz-Harley) Marcelle Sauvageot's Commentary.