Annie ernaux nobel prize

Erneaux, photographed in 1984, is known for her works that deal with shame, sexism and class. Pierre Guillaud/AFP via Getty Images The French writer Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. In making the announcement, Ernaux was born in 1940 in France. Her first book, Cleaned Out, in 1974 , was an autobiographical novel about obtaining an abortion when it was still illegal in France. She wrote the book in secret. "My husband had made fun of me after my first manuscript," New York Times in 2020. "I pretended to work on a Ph.D. thesis to have time alone." The book was translated into English in 1990. At the press conference for the announcement, Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel committee for literature, was asked if there was a political sentiment behind giving the award to someone who has written so personally about abortion. Olsson rebuffed, saying the committee focuses on literature and literary quality. That said, "it's very important for us also, that the laureate has universal consequence in her work. That it can reach everyone." After decades of excavating her own past in various works, Ernaux published The Years, which many critics saw as the her defining statement. First published in 2008, The Years was an expansive look at the society that created her. While it was an examination of each year of her life from 1940 - 2006, Ernaux avoided any use of ...

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• Opinion • Leaders • Letters to the editor • By Invitation • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • World • The world this week • China • United States • Europe • Britain • Middle East & Africa • Asia • The Americas • International • In depth • Science & technology • Graphic detail • Special reports • Technology Quarterly • The World Ahead • Briefing • Essay • Schools brief • Business & economics • Finance & economics • Business • Big Mac index • A-Z of economics • Economic & financial indicators • Culture & society • 1843 magazine • Culture • Obituary • The Economist reads • Summer reads • Christmas Specials • More • Podcasts • Newsletters • Films • The Economist app • Subscriber events • Online courses A NNIE ERNAUX is surely the only winner of the Nobel prize in literature to have written nostalgically—even ecstatically—about the London suburb of North Finchley. Her book of 2016, “A Girl’s Story”, is typical of the French writer’s approach. As the author recounts formative late-teenage experiences in Normandy and as an au pair in London, she blends deeply personal memoir with social and historical insight. 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...

• • • • I saw Annie Ernaux in New York City in the days after her Nobel win. She had been scheduled to speak at a French bookstore on the Upper East Side; the organizers told me that only a few dozen people had signed up for the event before the prize was announced. When I got there, the line was around the corner. Ernaux looked a little stunned all evening. But her total self-possession was also evident. This is an author whose bravery extends to occasionally publishing what are actually just her diaries. She wrote what we now call “autofiction” before it was a thing. On the subway ride home, I started and finished L’Événement (“ This originality certainly applies to Look at the Lights, My Love, her most recent book to be translated into English, out last month (it was published in French in 2014). J. Howard Rosier At first glance, it seems an unusual book for Ernaux—for one thing, unlike in so much of her work, there’s no sex, not that heightened “intimacy” that the novelist Nellie Herman described in Brian Ulrich / Robert Koch Gallery The Indignity of Grocery Shopping What to Read A House for Mr. Biswas , by V. S. Naipaul This epic novel by Naipaul, a Nobel laureate, revolves around one man’s lifelong search for a house to call his own. Mohun Biswas, born to a Hindu Indian family in 20th-century Trinidad, grows up relocating from one relative’s place to another. After marrying a woman he never intended to propose to, he moves into a large, communal fortress owned by his...

Literary career Ernaux started her literary career in 1974 with Les Armoires vides ( Cleaned Out), an autobiographical novel. In 1984, she won the La Place ( A Man's Place), an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin. Early in her career, Ernaux turned from fiction to focus on autobiography. La place, La honte), Ce qu'ils disent ou rien), her marriage ( La femme gelée), Passion simple), Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit), Une femme), and breast cancer ( L'usage de la photo). L'écriture comme un couteau ( Writing as Sharp as a Knife) with A Woman's Story, A Man's Place, and Simple Passion were recognised as A Woman's Story was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Shame was named a I Remain in Darkness a Top Memoir of 1999 by The Possession was listed as a Top Ten Book of 2008 by Ernaux's 2008 historical memoir Les Années ( The Years won the 2008 [ The Years was a finalist for the 31st Annual The Years was shortlisted for the International Booker. On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Ernaux would be awarded the Many of Ernaux's works have been translated into English and published by Works • Les Armoires vides, Paris: Gallimard, 1974; Gallimard, 1984, • Cleaned out. Translated by Carol Sanders. Dalkey Archive Press. 1990. 978-1-56478-139-0. • Ce qu'ils disent ou rien, Paris: Gal...