French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature Prize. She is known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender. NobelPrize2022
French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel Literature Prize. PHOTO | COURTESYFrench author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced.
Above all Ernaux's crystalline prose has excavated her own passage from working-class girl to the literary elite, casting a critical eye on social structures and her own complicated emotions. The Swedish Academy has in recent years pledged to make the prize more diverse, after a 2017-2018 #MeToo scandal that left it in tatters.
Interviewed on Swedish television immediately after the announcement, Ernaux called it a"very great honour" and"a great responsibility". "In her writing, Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class", the Swedish Academy noted."And when she with great courage and clinical acuity 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".
Famed -- and lambasted -- for its Eurocentric Nobel picks dominated by men, the jury has repeatedly maintained, however, that its prize is neither political nor subject to gender or ethnic quotas.The Nobel season continues on Friday with the highly anticipated Peace Prize, the only Nobel announced in Oslo.
Her more than 20 books, many of which have been school texts in France for decades, offer one of the most subtle, insightful windows into the social life of modern France. Ernaux will receive the Nobel from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament.
Punters have suggested this year's prize could sound the alarm over the war in Ukraine or the climate.French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced. Above all Ernaux's crystalline prose has excavated her own passage from working-class girl to the literary elite, casting a critical eye on social structures and her own complicated emotions.
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French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature PrizeFrench author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature Prize. She is known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender. NobelPrize2022
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