French Author Annie Ernaux
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, made the announcement on Thursday.
The academy said it awarded Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.
She was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy. She studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance.
The French writer said her “path to authorship was long and arduous”. Her debut book, Les armoires vides, was published in 1974 in France and as Cleaned Out in English in 1990. Her fourth book, La place or A Man’s Place, was her literary breakthrough.
Ernaux’s work frequently deals with questions of personal history. A 2018 translation of her memoir “The Years” was shortlisted for The Booker prize. A translation of Ernaux’s “Getting Lost,” “the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris,” was published earlier this year.
The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded annually by the 18-member Swedish Academy. It typically recognises an author’s full body of work, though the academy has singled out individual works by laureates on nine occasions.
The prize is worth around $913,000 this year.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 115 times to 119 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2022.
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