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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".
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.
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.
Annie Ernaux has 73 books on Goodreads with 568634 ratings. Annie Ernaux’s most popular book is Happening.
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 · Short, spare, stern and stoical are the books of Annie Ernaux, awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
Literature laureate Annie Ernaux gives her advice to young people and speaks about the importance of honesty in writing in this conversation with Nobel Prize Outreach’s Claire Paetkau.
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...
Nov 9, 2023 · Annie Ernaux Can Read Anywhere, So Long as It’s Quiet. “The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man ...
