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08/10/22 07:34 AM IST

French author Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2022

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  • French author Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s.
About Ernaux 
  • Ernaux was born in Lillebonne, Normandy and spent her growing-up years in nearby Yvetot.
  • She studied at the universities of Rouen and then Bordeaux, qualified as a school-teacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971.
  • In 1974 Annie published her first book, “Les armoires vides”.
  • Since 1980s, she focused on memoirs, wrote about her ill-fated marriage, her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s, her own experience of cancer, as well as several passionate affairs she enjoyed in middle age. 
  • In 2008 she won the Prix Renaudot for her autobiography “The Years” and in 2014, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cergy-Pontoise.
  • In 2022, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. 
  • Annie Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides (Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel.
  • Ernaux is the 16th French writer, and the first Frenchwoman, to receive a prize in literature. 
Source- Indian Express 

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