French writer Annie Ernaux has finally won the Nobel Prize for Literature, after years of being touted to take the trophy. This makes her the 17th woman to win the prize, out of 119 total recipients.
The 82-year-old was announced as the winner by the Nobel Prize committee yesterday, who lauded her 50-year body of work as “uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean.” She is beloved as a writer, constantly toeing the line between fiction of nonfiction while she dissects her own life, sex and political realities.
