French author Annie Ernaux was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature for 'the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,' the Swedish Academy announced.
French author Annie Ernaux, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 2022, poses for a photograph. — French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society.
Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Ernaux is"an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths." "I was working this morning and the phone has been ringing all the time but I haven't answered," she told the TT news agency. In the book that made her name,"La Place" , published in 1983 and about her relationship with her father, she writes:"No lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony. This neutral writing style comes to me naturally."
"We try first of all to broaden the scope of the Nobel Prize, but our focus must be on literary quality," Olsson said.
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