A backstreet abortion nearly killed Annie Ernaux. It became a story that shaped her life

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“Every moment of that abortion was a surprise to me,” recalls Annie Ernaux.The French writer, today Nobel Prize winner in Literature, talks about the clandestine intervention that nearly cost her her life in 1963.She was 23 years old, studying at university and dreaming of becoming an author.She was also the first of a family of workers and small merchants to access higher education, an achievement that she felt was crumbling before her eyes.“Se…