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Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, in recognition of the “courage and clinical acuity” with which she has mined her personal experiences as a woman of working-class background to explore life in France since World War II.
Ernaux “consistently and from different angles examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class”, said the Swedish Academy, explaining its choice of the 82-year-old author – the 16th Nobel laureate to write in French.
In more than 20 books published over five decades, Ernaux has delved fearlessly into life’s most intimate moments, including sexual encounters, illness, ageing and death. A film adaptation of her 2000 novel “Happening” (“L’événement”), about her experience of having an abortion when it was still illegal in France, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2021.
“I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged,” Ernaux, who touched on the same topic in her first book back in 1974, told reporters in Paris. “Until my last breath, I will fight for women’s right to choose whether they want to be a mother or not.”
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The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” pic.twitter.com/D9yAvki1LL— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
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