French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature | Books and Literature News,The Indian Express
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Ernaux, 82, started out writing autobiographical novels, but quickly abandoned fiction in favor of memoirs.
Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her. They present uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents.
The 2022 #NobelPrize laureate in literature Annie Ernaux believes in the liberating force of writing. Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. pic.twitter.com/la80uMiSa8
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Anders Olsson, chairman, Nobel Committee for literature, said Ernaux’s work was often “uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean.”
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