About
Nathalie Sarraute, born Natalia Tcherniak in Ivanovo-Voznessensk, Russia, settled in Paris in 1909. Trained as a lawyer, she devoted herself to writing and published her first work, Tropisms, in 1939. Her essay The Age of Suspicion (1956) became a manifesto of the New Novel movement. Her work explores the imperceptible inner movements that precede speech and action. She won the International Literature Prize in 1963 for The Golden Fruits and published her autobiography Childhood in 1983. In 1996, she was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade during her lifetime, a rare honor. She died in Paris in 1999.
* 1900-07-18 — † 1999-10-19
Major works
- Tropismes (1939)novel
- L'Ère du soupçon (1956)essay
- Les Fruits d'or (1963)novel
- Enfance (1983)autobiography
Key milestones
- 1926Admitted to the Paris bar.
- 1963Awarded the International Literature Prize for The Golden Fruits.
- 1996Publication of her works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade during her lifetime.
Themes
tropismssubconsciouslanguagehuman relationshipsmemory
Sources: britannica.com · bnf.fr