Yourcenar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Ernaux has stacked up awards in recent years, winning the Marguerite Yourcenar award, the Premio Hemingway and the Prix Formentor, and landing a shortlist spot on this year’s Man Booker International prize.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019
Yourcenar lived for years with a female lover, Grace Frick, an American who translated some of her works into English.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2015
I would probably include “Les Mémoires d’Hadrian,” by Marguerite Yourcenar, which I love.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2014
Yourcenar has Hadrian compare himself, favorably, with Alcibiades, who "had seduced everyone and everything, even History herself."
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2010
Ms. Tierney’s puppet theater production is based on a short story by Marguerite Yourcenar that retells a Chinese legend celebrating the triumph of art over life.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2010
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