A backstreet abortion nearly killed Annie Ernaux. It became a story that shaped her life
Source: BBC
Hulton Archive via Getty ImagesVibeke VenemaandLaura Gozzi,BBC World Service"Every moment of that abortion was a surprise to me," says Annie Ernaux.The French Nobel literature laureate is talking about an illegal abortion that nearly ended her life in 1963.She was a 23-year-old student with ambitions to become a writer. But as the first in a family of labourers and shopkeepers to go to university, she could feel…
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