The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been 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.”
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in literature Annie Ernaux has said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes for social inequality. For this purpose she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination. pic.twitter.com/TQm6rxjvMp
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Annie’s Ernaux work combines historic and individual experiences. Ernaux’s 2008 historical memoir Les Années (The Years), very well received by French critics, is considered by many to be the 82-year-old’s magnum opus.
With great courage and clinical acuity, Annie Ernaux reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.#NobelPrize
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Past Recipients
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro
2016: Bob Dylan
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2014: Patrick Modiano
2013: Alice Munro
2012: Mo Yan
According to the Swedish Academy, it honours an author with Nobel Prize in Literature from any country who has, in the words of the will of industrialist Alfred Nobel, “in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction”.
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