Annie Ernaux

The Swedish Academy said that it had awarded Ernaux the prize “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and ...

A 2018 translation of her memoir [“The Years”](https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B07D56SBCM&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_QY22B5XHQTY55NZPVW8P&tag=thewaspos09-20) was [shortlisted](https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-years) for the Booker Prize. [Abdulrazak Gurnah](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/08/23/nobel-winner-abdulrazak-gurnah-afterlives/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23), a Tanzanian-born novelist who writes primarily in English. [“I Remain in Darkness,”](https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B07WMZSLLQ&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_5HE0SET8XRBERH26GJWY&tag=thewaspos09-20) Ernaux chronicled her mother’s decline under the effect of Alzheimer’s. In response to an audience question at this year’s announcement about the Nobel Prize’s general focus on European writers, Olsson said, “We have many different criteria, and you cannot satisfy all of them.” Stressing again that literary quality was most important to the committee, he went on, “One year, we gave the prize to a non-European writer, last year, Abdulrazak Gurnah. [kept secret for 50 years](https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/), can be submitted by members of the academy and its peer institutions, literature and linguistics professors, previous laureates, and the presidents of national literary societies. Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot directed “The Super 8 Years,” a 60-minute film composed of old home movies that she is to present at the New York Film Festival next week. [born](https://www.annie-ernaux.org/biography/) in 1940 in Normandy, the daughter of working-class parents. After reviewing and discussing the works of the nominees on that list, the academy selects a winner in October. Instead, at her best, Ernaux has the ability to refine ordinary experience, stripping it of irrelevancy and digression and reducing it to a kind of iconography of the late-20th-century soul.” John Donatich, the director of Yale University Press, said in a statement: “As a great admirer of Annie Ernaux’s extraordinary work, it is a particular pleasure for me to see her receive this global recognition. A translation of Ernaux’s [“Getting Lost,”](https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09N6S2QHP&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_A7EN738616G6GHRK0TV2&tag=thewaspos09-20) a diary of her affair with a younger, married man, was published this year. [“Happening”](https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B00541ZWVC&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_VRREX561XQ6ZFG25X6ZD&tag=thewaspos09-20) discusses an illegal abortion that she had in the 1960s.

Ernaux, de 82 años, ha escrito varias novelas célebres, muchas de las cuales son autobiográficas. Su primer libro, "Les armoires vides", se publicó en francés ...

Pero la victoria de Ernaux arroja luz sobre sus escritos sobre el aborto, meses después de que la Corte Suprema de EE. Los organizadores dijeron a los periodistas este jueves que se centraron en la calidad literaria y no en enviar un mensaje al mundo al elegir el premio. Su cuarto trabajo, "La place" (1983) o "A Man's Place" (1992), la llevó a la prominencia.

El mayor galardón de la literatura fue para Annie Ernaux por "el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los extrañamientos y las ...

testificar, no necesariamente en términos de mi escritura, sino testificar con exactitud y justicia en relación con el mundo". Su trabajo es intransigente y está escrito en un lenguaje sencillo, limpio", señaló Heldin. El año pasado lo ganó el novelista tanzano Abdulrazak Gurnah. Esa experiencia la incorporaría luego a sus novelas. Otro de los libros de Ernaux, "Los años", ganó el Premio Renaudot en Francia en 2008 y el Premio Strega en Italia en 2016, mientras que un año después gobtuvo el Premio Marguerite Yourcenar por sus trabajos. La escritora fue reconocida por la Academia Sueca por "el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los extrañamientos y las restricciones colectivas de la memorial personal".

The French writer, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, blurs the line between fiction and memoir with spare prose she has characterized as ...

[Happening](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/books/the-thing.html)” is an account of a back-alley abortion she had in 1963. To be in the pure immanence of a moment.” “ [A Girl’s Story](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/books/review/schrodingers-dog-martin-dumont-girls-story-annie-ernaux-finding-dora-maar-brigitte-benkemoun.html?searchResultPosition=4)” describes an adolescence shaped by a difficult sexual encounter and an eating disorder, and contrasts that with her sense of herself in her 70s. “There is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.” “The world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed,” she has written. Ernaux writes as if she’s walked quietly onstage with a guitar and a tiny, crackling amp, which she plugs in and proceeds, like P.J. To be there at that very instant, without spilling over into the before or after. Ernaux, 82, is the author of 20 or so works of fiction and memoir. Each looks out levelly at the world; each derives maximum effect from a minimum of words. The book’s tone is thin, bare and chapped, I wrote in my review of it, as if broadcast in mono instead of stereo, in the best sense. English-language readers have, in recent years, been racing to catch up. [who won the Nobel in 2020,](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/books/louise-gluck-nobel-prize-literature.html) hers is a voice of rough compassion.

The Nobel Prize in literature for 2022 was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, ...

[Things Seen](https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803210776/), of which it said, “Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where ‘things seen’ reflect a private life meeting the larger world. “As the novel progresses, and Anne’s feelings about her parents, her education, and her sexual encounters evolve, she grows into a more mature but also more conflicted and unhappy character, leaving behind the innocence of her middle school years. The story, which takes place during the summer and fall of Anne’s transition from middle school to high school, is narrated in a stream-of-consciousness style from her point of view. Ernaux captures Anne’s adolescent voice, through which she expresses her keen observations in a highly colloquial style,” said the press’s description of the novel. “Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the novel tells the story of a 15-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents. Her setting was poor but ambitious, with parents who had pulled themselves up from proletarian survival to a bourgeois life, where the memories of beaten earth floors never disappeared but where politics was seldom broached.

Annie Ernaux, the French writer known for her autobiographical novels and nonfiction works, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature.

[Salman Rushdie](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/salman-rushdie-recovering-after-stabbing.html) would be awarded the honor following his attack in August. [awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/06/books/nobel-prize-literature?partner=slack&smid=sl-share). Born in France in 1940, Ernaux published her first book, [Cleaned Out](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/where-does-the-abortion-thriller-go-from-here.html), in 1974.

Jorge Carrión es escritor y crítico cultural. La vida de la escritora francesa Annie Ernaux está llena de momentos decisivos: el día en que su padre quiso ...

El autor de El adversario imitó su gesto al abandonar la ficción en el año 2000 y consagrarse al cultivo de una prosa autobiográfica que también explora obsesivamente su propia psicología en tensión con el cuerpo. En el siglo XXI, que está siendo el siglo del feminismo, del documental, del selfi, del yo, la obra de Ernaux ha encontrado su contexto de recepción ideal. Lo que le interesa a Ernaux es la política del cuerpo, de la intimidad, de la fricción entre el individuo y sus parejas, sus padres, su comunidad. Y contrapuntea el relato de la vivencia con apuntes que revelan la sociología, la reflexión teórica acerca de las costumbres o las leyes que envuelven los actos individuales como hacen con las venas o los músculos los estratos de la epidermis. Y en aquellos años Ernaux tomó la decisión de dejar de disfrazarse y de tergiversar las historias y comenzó a enfrentarse a rostro descubierto con su propia vida. La causa concreta es su inesperado embarazo y la decisión de interrumpirlo, pero el comentario se puede extrapolar.

Ángela Reyes Haczek. (CNN Español) — Por su “coraje y agudeza clínica”, la francesa Annie Ernaux, de 82 años, recibió este jueves el Premio Nobel de ...

“Encuentro en la literatura un auxilio”. “Representan una extrema derecha que se asimilaría a la extrema derecha de (el dictador español Francisco) Franco”, dijo. Este año, en las elecciones francesas que enfrentaron a Emmanuel Macron y Marine Le Pen, la escritora, en una entrevista con La Sexta de España, describió las ultraderechas que han avanzado en su país con el calificativo de “rancio”. Pero la victoria de Ernaux arroja luz sobre sus escritos sobre el aborto, meses después de que la Corte Suprema de EE. Ernaux nació en un pueblo rural en Normandía, al norte de Francia, en 1940, de padres que tenían una tienda y una cafetería. “Su trabajo es intransigente y está escrito en un lenguaje sencillo, limpio”, dijo este jueves Anders Olsson, de la Academia Sueca, cuando anunció su galardón.

Por su "coraje y agudeza clínica", la francesa Annie Ernaux, de 82 años, recibió este jueves el Premio Nobel de Literatura, la mujer número 17 en obtenerlo.

"Representan una extrema derecha que se asimilaría a la extrema derecha de (el dictador español Francisco) Franco", dijo. "Encuentro en la literatura un auxilio". Pero la victoria de Ernaux arroja luz sobre sus escritos sobre el aborto, meses después de que la Corte Suprema de EE. [Ernaux](https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/10/06/annie-ernaux-nobel-literatura-2022-ganador-trax/) nació en un pueblo rural en Normandía, al norte de Francia, en 1940, de padres que tenían una tienda y una cafetería. Estudió Literatura en la Universidad de Ruán, [según la editorial Grupo Planeta](https://www.planetadelibros.com.uy/autor/annie-ernaux/000028965), e impartió esta materia en liceos del pueblo de Annecy y en la periferia de París. "Su trabajo es intransigente y está escrito en un lenguaje sencillo, limpio", dijo este jueves Anders Olsson, de la Academia Sueca, cuando anunció su galardón.

PARIS (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux, who has fearlessly mined her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s, ...

Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal](https://apnews.com/article/science-health-stockholm-chemistry-fd3521c6436c94fd6dd73f4e53d86d09) for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs to target cancer and other diseases. “My work is political,” she said at the news conference. [A week of Nobel Prize announcements](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-salman-rushdie-science-entertainment-health-0f1485cd7e7a3beb23731e2e38176c9b) kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist [Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-science-health-stockholm-5cfe18038fc4fcda06d38323f7333c69) for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system. Described by Olsson as “the first collective autobiography,” it depicted Ernaux herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the 21st century. The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895. Two more autobiographical novels followed – “Ce qu’ils disent ou rien” (“What They Say Goes”) and “La femme gelée” (“The Frozen Woman”) – before she moved to more overtly autobiographical books. Its English translation was a finalist for the International Booker Prize in 2019. Dan Simon, Ernaux’s longtime American publisher at Seven Stories Press, said that in the early years, “she insisted that we not categorize her books at all. Her voice is that of women’s freedom, and the century’s forgotten ones.” Ernaux’s first book, “Cleaned Out,” was about her own illegal abortion before it was legalized in France. “And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. “She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth.

PARÍS (AP) — La autora francesa Annie Ernaux, quien ha explorado con valentía sus experiencias como una mujer de clase trabajadora para retratar la vida en ...

Los premios se entregarán el 10 de diciembre en una gala. Dijo que enfrentó el desdén del sector literario de Francia porque “era una mujer que no venía de sus mismos orígenes”. En este, a diferencia de sus libros anteriores, habla de sí misma en tercera persona, llamando a su personaje “ella” en lugar de “yo”. Olsson dijo que la obra de Ernaux a menudo “ha sido escrita en un lenguaje llano, descarnado”. El Nobel de Literatura ha sido criticador por años por estar bastante enfocado en autores europeos y estadounidenses, así como demasiados autores hombres. El Premio Nobel de química fue otorgado el miércoles a los estadounidenses Carolyn R. Ernaux es la primera escritora francesa en ganar el Nobel y la 17ª mujer entre los 119 galardonados con el Nobel de Literatura. Clauser y el austriaco Anton Zeilinger ganaron el premio de física el martes por una obra que mostró que las partículas diminutas pueden mantener una conexión entre ellas incluso cuando son separadas, un fenómeno conocido como entrelazamiento cuántico. Macron elogió a Ernaux por el Nobel, pero ella ha sido una de sus críticas. El presidente francés Emmanuel Macron tuiteó: “Annie Ernaux ha escrito por 50 años la novela de la memoria colectiva e íntima de nuestro país. Es un derecho fundamental”, dijo en una conferencia de prensa en París. “Escribe sobre cosas de las que nadie más escribe, por ejemplo, su aborto, sus celos, sus experiencias como una amante abandonada, y más.

Este jueves fue otorgado el Premio Nobel de Literatura a la escritora francesa Annie Ernaux, a sus 82 años, “por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que ...

Son varios los libros que destacan de Ernaux, sin embargo, el medio francés Le monde, uno de los más reconocidos de ese país, destaca el libro Los años (2008), el cual es su escrito con mayor y mejor recepción. "La suspensión del juicio moral, esa orden, es necesaria para leer este libro, precisamente porque es en la esfera de lo moral donde transcurre este relato. Este jueves fue otorgado el Premio Nobel de Literatura a la escritora francesa Annie Ernaux, a sus 82 años, “por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los extrañamientos y las restricciones colectivas de la memoria personal”.

La Academia Sueca dijo que Annie Ernaux, de 82 años, fue reconocida por "el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces.

- El Premio Nobel de Química fue concedido el miércoles a los estadounidenses Carolyn R. - El martes, tres científicos ganaron conjuntamente el premio de física. Presentan retratos sin concesiones de encuentros sexuales, abortos, enfermedades y la muerte de sus padres. Este estilo de escritura neutro me sale naturalmente". Es la primera galardonada de literatura francesa desde Patrick Modiano en 2014. Ernaux es la 17ª mujer entre los 119 premios Nobel de Literatura.

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books ...

Former French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot wrote on Twitter that Ernaux is "a writer who has put the autobiographical mode in its cold analytical way at the heart of her career. "She's been a very important contributor in terms of memoir and autobiographical work," Whittaker told Reuters. Readers in France said they'd been waiting for Ernaux to win. "I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged," Ernaux told reporters in Paris. "It's a long path that she makes in her life," Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson told Reuters. She has previously said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes to social inequality.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux, who has fearlessly mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, won this year's Nobel ...

Her most critically acclaimed book is “The Years,” published in 2008, which described herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the 21st century. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal](https://apnews.com/article/science-health-stockholm-chemistry-fd3521c6436c94fd6dd73f4e53d86d09) for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895. Ernaux is the first female French Nobel literature winner and just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates. The academy revamped itself but faced more criticism for giving the 2019 literature award to Austria’s Peter Handke, who has been called an apologist for Serbian war crimes. Last year’s prize winner, Tanzanian-born, U.K.-based writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa. They present uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents. Her voice is that of women’s freedom, and the century’s forgotten ones.” Her first book was “Cleaned Out” in 1974. “She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. “And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. While Macron praised Ernaux for her Nobel, she has been unsparing with him.

La autora francesa Annie Ernaux ganó el Premio Nobel de Literatura de este año por fusionar ficción y autobiografía en libros que exploran con valentía sus.

Los premios se entregarán el 10 de diciembre en una gala. El Premio Nobel de Química fue otorgado el miércoles a los estadounidenses Carolyn R. Clauser y el austriaco Anton Zeilinger ganaron el premio de física el martes por una obra que mostró que las partículas diminutas pueden mantener una conexión entre ellas incluso cuando son separadas, un fenómeno conocido como entrelazamiento cuántico. El presidente francés Emmanuel Macron tuiteó: “Annie Ernaux ha escrito por 50 años la novela de la memoria colectiva e íntima de nuestro país. “Escribe sobre cosas de las que nadie más escribe, por ejemplo, su aborto, sus celos, sus experiencias como una amante abandonada, y más. Es un derecho fundamental”, señaló en una conferencia de prensa en París.

The French author of mostly autobiographical work takes the prestigious books prize for the 'courage and clinical acuity' of her writing.

Previous winners include Bob Dylan, cited for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, and Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. Testard said Ernaux’s “literary project has been to write about her life and to get at the truth of it somehow … “Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean,” he continued. Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy. Reading her is to thoroughly purge yourself of the notion that shame could be a possible outcome of wanting sex.” Ernaux is the first French writer to win the Nobel since Patrick Modiano in 2014.

STOCKHOLM -- French author Annie Ernaux, who has fearlessly mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, won this year's Nobel Prize ...

Described by Olsson as “the first collective autobiography,” it depicted Ernaux herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the 21st century. The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895. Two more autobiographical novels followed – "Ce qu’ils disent ou rien" (“What They Say Goes”) and "La femme gelée" (“The Frozen Woman”) – before she moved to more overtly autobiographical books. “My work is political," she said at the news conference. Its English translation was a finalist for the International Booker Prize in 2019. Last year’s prize winner, Tanzanian-born, U.K.-based writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Dan Simon, Ernaux's longtime American publisher at Seven Stories Press, said that in the early years, “she insisted that we not categorize her books at all. Her voice is that of women’s freedom, and the century’s forgotten ones.” Ernaux's books present uncompromising portraits of life's most intimate moments, including sexual encounters, illness and the deaths of her parents. Ernaux's first book, “Cleaned Out,” was about her own illegal abortion before it was legalized in France. “She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. "And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking.

Este jueves fue otorgado el Premio Nobel de Literatura a la escritora francesa Annie Ernaux, a sus 82 años, “por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que ...

Son varios los libros que destacan de Ernaux, sin embargo, el medio francés Le monde, uno de los más reconocidos de ese país, destaca el libro Los años (2008), el cual es su escrito con mayor y mejor recepción. "La suspensión del juicio moral, esa orden, es necesaria para leer este libro, precisamente porque es en la esfera de lo moral donde transcurre este relato. Este jueves fue otorgado el Premio Nobel de Literatura a la escritora francesa Annie Ernaux, a sus 82 años, “por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los extrañamientos y las restricciones colectivas de la memoria personal”.

Yes, awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to Ernaux, a chronicler of illegal abortion, is a political move. But it's also a victory for literature.

“I shall never hear the sound of her voice again,” she writes in the closing paragraph of “A Woman’s Story.” “It was her voice, together with her words, her hands, and her way of moving and laughing which linked the woman I am to the child I once was. In “The Years” (2008), Ernaux addresses the issue head on, seeking out “a language no one knows.” The solution she enacts explodes our preconceptions of voice and person, sliding between the singular and plural, using pronouns such as “we” and “she” while eschewing the memoir’s defining posture: “I.” One of the ways Ernaux develops this book is to circle back, more than once, to the opening sentence, using it as a kind of echo that punctuates the narrative. Both “A Woman’s Story” and its companion volume “A Man’s Place” (1983) represent cases in point. Such a move highlights not only the immediacy of writing as an act but also the emotions Ernaux can’t resolve. “It was only the day before yesterday that I overcame the fear of writing ‘My mother died’ on a blank sheet of paper, not as the first line of a letter but as the opening of a book.” [As I once wrote](https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-annie-ernaux-20180118-story.html) in these pages, Ernaux is ruthless, which is the highest praise I have to give. In more than 20 books, 15 of which have been translated into English, she has [effectively deconstructed](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-21-et-secondulin21-story.html) not just the memoir as a form but also the very question of memory and identity. At the same time, and as much as I support that intention, the choice of Ernaux as this year’s laureate is a victory for literature. She is not interested in taking narrative at face value or using it to blur or soften; there is not a sentimental sentence in her oeuvre. “Trace it all back,” she writes in “Cleaned Out,” “call it all up, fit it all together, an assembly line, one thing after another. I use the word reminiscence rather than memoir for a reason; Ernaux also resists the simplification of form.

In her books the French author transmutes the private and the ordinary into something profound | Culture.

In Ms Ernaux’s hands, the supermarket trolley may become a vehicle of history. “A Woman’s Story” (1987), a searing account of her mother’s life and death from Alzheimer’s, helped secure her reputation in France. Translated by Alison Strayer, it won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2019 (of which your correspondent was a judge): to date, one of Ms Ernaux’s few honours in the Anglosphere. “I believe that desire, frustration and social and cultural inequality are reflected in the way we examine the contents of our shopping trolley or in the words we use to order a cut of beef,” she has said. Her book of 2016, “A Girl’s Story”, is typical of the French writer’s approach. Decades later, she returns to the city for a literary event; while her fellow delegates consume culture, she takes the Tube and plunges “back into my past life”.

The French author is the 17th woman to win the prize.

[The Years](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/556070/the-years-by-annie-ernaux/). Her breakthrough into the mainstream came with her fourth book, [A Man’s Place](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55507230-a-man-s-place). Last year, the book was adapted as a [feature-length film](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13880104/). The Swedish Academy has been criticized over the years for failing to recognize a diverse range of writers: Including Ermaux, 96 of the past 119 Nobel literature laureates have been either European or North American. The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor, which is almost $900,000. She joins over a dozen French writers who have been honored with the award. But publishers rejected it for being “too ambitious,” she told the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/annie-ernaux-a-girls-story.html)’ Laura Cappelle in 2020. “She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. For years, the literary community has regarded Ernaux as a favorite for the accolade, which is awarded to an author for their entire body of work and is widely considered to be the greatest honor a writer can achieve. reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.” She found out when she heard the news on the radio, and stepped outside of her suburban Paris home to speak briefly with reporters on Thursday afternoon, reports Her work is lauded for its blistering honesty; the author has recounted her first sexual experiences, an illegal abortion, a passionate extramarital affair and the death of her parents, among other things.

French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel said was an "uncompromising" 40-year body of work exploring "a life ...

It was turned into a film that For this purpose she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination. [wrote in 2020](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/a-memoirist-who-mistrusts-her-own-memories) that over her 20 books, "she has been devoted to a single task: the excavation of her own life". That would later feed into her novels. [#NobelPrize]laureate in literature Annie Ernaux has said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes for social inequality. Her parents ran a café and grocery shop, and when she encountered girls from middle-class backgrounds, she experienced the "shame of her working-class parents and milieu for the first time,"

The Nobel Prize in literature for 2022 was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, ...

[Things Seen](https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803210776/), of which it said, “Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where ‘things seen’ reflect a private life meeting the larger world. “As the novel progresses, and Anne’s feelings about her parents, her education, and her sexual encounters evolve, she grows into a more mature but also more conflicted and unhappy character, leaving behind the innocence of her middle school years. The story, which takes place during the summer and fall of Anne’s transition from middle school to high school, is narrated in a stream-of-consciousness style from her point of view.

The French author's Nobel Prize win represents a great moment for memoir, for women, and for the precise use of language in the service of emotional truth.

The first in her family to receive an advanced education, she worked for years as a teacher of literature, eventually becoming part of the French national correspondence school CNED. Born in 1940, she grew up in Yvetot, Normandy, the daughter of a farm boy and a factory worker who both left school at 12 and who came far enough up in the world to run a provincial café and general store. She is the author of more than 20 books, most of them relatively brief accounts drawn from her memories of a life—which doesn’t immediately strike one as the stuff of literature, but that’s where Ernaux, once again, proves us wrong.