Annie Ernaux is known as 'an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths,' Ernaux’s autobiographical books explore deeply personal experiences—love, sex, abortion, shame—within a changing web of social and class relationships
Michel Euler—AP — French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family, and society.
The Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, was recognized for “the courage and clinical acuity” of her writing. “She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. I mean, really hard experiences,” he said after the award announcement in Stockholm. “And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving.”
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