Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist, Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, and educated privately to a prodigious standard at her father's estate in northern France. Her mother died ten days after Marguerite was born due to complications. Yourcenar read Racine and Aristophanes by the age of eight and her father taught her Latin at ten, and Greek at twelve.

Works

• Le jardin des chimères (1921)
• Alexis ou le traité du vain combat (1929)
• La nouvelle Eurydice (1931)
• Feux (prose poem, 1936)
• Nouvelles orientales (short stories, 1938)
• Les songes et les sorts (1938)
• Le coup de grâce (1939)
• Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951)
• Électre ou La chute des masques (1954)
• L'?uvre au noir (novel, 1968, Prix Femina 1968)
• Souvenirs pieux (1974)
• Archives du Nord (1977)
• Mishima ou la vision du vide (essay, 1980)
• Quoi? L'Éternité (1988)