Marguerite Yourcenar, born Marguerite de Crayencour, was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a United States citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie francaise. Born in 1903 and dying in 1987, she is best known for her historical novel Memoirs of Hadrian. She was elected to the Académie francaise in 1980, and in 1965 she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947
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17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she
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