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French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”, the award-giving body said on Thursday.
Ernaux, whose work is mostly autobiographical, is 82.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($914,704).
In explaining its choice, the Academy said Ernaux “consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class”.
Her debut novel was “Les Armoires Vides” in 1974 but she gained international recognition following the publication of “Les Années” in 2008, translated into “The Years” in 2017.
“It is her most ambitious project, which has given her an international reputation and a raft of followers and literary disciples,” the Academy said of that book.
“I consider this to be a great honour for me and at the same time a great responsibility, a responsibility given to me,” Ernaux told Swedish public broadcaster SVT moments after the prize was announced.
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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
The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were established in the will of Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, whose invention of dynamite made him rich and famous, and have been awarded since 1901.
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