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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".
Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne le 1 er septembre 1940 à Lillebonne (Seine-Inférieure), est une professeure de lettres et écrivaine française. Le prix Nobel de littérature lui est décerné en 2022 pour « le courage et l’acuité clinique avec laquelle elle découvre les racines, les éloignements et les contraintes collectives de la ...
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.
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 ethnological...
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. Work.
May 10, 2024 · Annie Ernaux 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.
Oct 6, 2022 · The French writer Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction.
Oct 6, 2022 · Short, spare, stern and stoical are the books of Annie Ernaux, awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. In her native France, where she has been famous for decades, her work is likened to...
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.
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.
