The Nobel Literature Prize was awarded to French novelist Annie Ernaux on Thursday, the panel announced. Annie Ernaux is well recognised for her deceptively simple novels that draw on personal experience of class and gender.The committee cited Ernaux, 82, as receiving the award “for the boldness and clinical clarity with which she unearths the roots, estrangements, and collective restrictions of personal memory.”
After the announcement, Ernaux was interviewed by Swedish television and described it as a “very tremendous honour” and “a great responsibility.”One of the most nuanced, perceptive windows into the social life of contemporary France may be found in her more than 20 books, many of which have been required reading in French classrooms for decades.
