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Editorial: Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

The Nobel winning French writer documents her affair with a much younger man

The Nobel winner’s short memoir takes an episode of domestic violence when she was 12 as inspiration for a deft and powerful study of her childhood self

Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

La célèbre auteure française et lauréate du prix Nobel nous parle de l’importance de la correspondance qu’elle reçoit de ses lecteurs et ses lectrices

The renowned French author and Nobel Prize winner on the value of readers’ letters

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

The French writer’s lucid narration lends profundity to these scrappy home videos shot over a decade

Literary ambition, motherhood and a quietly strained marriage appear in the sweet, soft focus home movies of French author Annie Ernaux

French writer Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. However, the author recently revealed at an event that she never wanted to win the award. She further revealed…