Marguerite Yourcenar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marguerite Yourcenar

French writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1903

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1987

Profession: writer, poet, translator, author, university teacher, novelist, essayist

Nationality: United States, Belgium, France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: , French: [ma?g(?)?it ju?s?na?] (listen); 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, 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, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.