French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature (2022)

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The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Annie Ernaux, the French novelist whose intensely personal books have highlighted incidents from her own life, including a back-street abortion in the 1960s and a passionate extramarital affair.

Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the decision at a news conference in Stockholm, saying she had received the award “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/06/books/nobel-prize-literature

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Who is Annie Ernaux?
The French novelist grew up in Normandy to working class parents. She is known for her mostly autobiographical work, such as A Woman’s Story, A Man’s Place, and Simple Passion. She started her literary career in 1974, and her work is so rooted in fact that some English-speaking critics and publishers have been tempted to categorise it as memoir. Ernaux herself has always been adamant that she writes fiction, however. Many of her works have been translated into English, and she was nominated for the International Booker prize in 2019 for her book The Years.

Her work is published in the US by Seven Stories Press. Ernaux is one of the seven founding authors from whom the press takes its name

https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2022/oct/06/nobel-prize-in-literature-2022-salman-rushdie-among-favourites-as-winner-due-to-be-announced-live