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Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux ( née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] [2] Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close ...
May 10, 2024 · Annie Ernaux (born September 1, 1940, Lillebonne, France) is a French author known for her lightly fictionalized memoirs, which are written in spare, detached prose. Her work examines her memories, sometimes revisiting events in later works and reconstructing them, thus revealing the artifice of her own genre.
Since the publication of her first book, Cleaned Out, in 1974, Annie Ernaux’s writing has continued to explore not only her own life experience but also that of her generation, her parents, women, anonymous others encountered in public space, the forgotten. The main themes threaded through her work over more than four decades, are: the body ...
Oct 6, 2022 · French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel said was an "uncompromising" 50-year body of work exploring "a life marked by great disparities regarding ...
Annie Ernaux. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022. Born: 1 September 1940, Lillebonne, France. Residence at the time of the award: France. Prize motivation: “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Language: French. Prize share: 1/1.
Telephone interview with Annie Ernaux on 6 October 2022. Literature laureate Annie Ernaux gives her advice to young people and speaks about the importance of honesty in writing in this conversation with Nobel Prize Outreach’s Claire Paetkau. Recorded on the day the Nobel Prize was announced, Ernaux describes how she found out she was the 2022 ...
Oct 6, 2022 · Oct. 6, 2022. For decades, the French writer Annie Ernaux has dissected the most humiliating, private and scandalous moments from her past with almost clinical precision: “I shall carry out an ...
Oct 6, 2022 · Ernaux, 82, is the author of 20 or so works of fiction and memoir. She likes to blur the line between the two. Her books excavate one woman’s life; Ernaux finds the universal in humble, well ...
Oct 6, 2022 · Annie Ernaux, the French author known for her exploration of female sexuality and the lives of women, has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Ernaux, 82, was given the 2022 award “for ...
Oct 6, 2022 · French writer Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. Erneaux, photographed in 1984, is known for her works that deal with shame, sexism and class. The French writer Annie Ernaux has ...
Oct 6, 2022 · French writer Annie Ernaux is the newest Nobel laureate in literature. She is a forceful writer of memoir, as described this morning by the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary. (SOUNDBITE OF ...
Aug 27, 2020 · Ernaux says that being a woman meant the attacks were more virulent. “In France, literature is a man’s world. All the prizes, everything is controlled by men. Now people say I have legitimacy ...
Nov 9, 2023 · Annie Ernaux Can Read Anywhere, So Long as It’s Quiet. “The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man ...
Annie Ernaux delivered her Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2022 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. She was introduced by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2022, 5:00 p.m. CET. Publication in periodicals or ...
Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne Normandy. A few years later her parents moved to Yvetot, where they kept a café and grocery shop in a working-class district of the town. She studied at a private Catholic secondary school in Yvetot, encountering girls from more middle-class backgrounds, and experiencing shame of her ...
Oct 8, 2022 · Annie Ernaux is the author of 24 books. Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA. Born Annie Duchesne in 1940 in Normandie, Ernaux grew up working-class in a small town, Yvetot, where her parents ran a café ...
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International ...
Nov 14, 2022 · Ernaux was an anti-Semite (she supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as a way of advancing the Palestinian cause), an Islamofascist (she considers French antipathy to the hijab to ...
Oct 6, 2022 · The French author is the 17th woman to win the prize. The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday to French author Annie Ernaux, citing the “courage and clinical acuity ...
Apr 13, 2020 · Ernaux is an unusual memoirist: she distrusts her memory. She writes in the first person, and then abruptly switches and speaks about herself from a distance, calling past selves “the girl of ...
