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French novelist, memoirist Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize for Literature

French writer Annie Ernaux, awarded with the 2019 Formentor Prix, speaks during the Guadalajara International Book Fair, in Guadalajara, Mexico, on December 4, 2019. © Ulises Ruiz, AFP

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory", the award-giving body said on Thursday.

Ernaux, whose work is mostly autobiographical, is 82.

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