The Latest Breaking News from Annie Ernaux

Editorial: One of France’s finest writers has joined an all too select bunch of female laureates. And about time too

The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in literature at the age of 82. Of the 119 awarded, Ernaux is only the 18th woman Nobel laureate in literature and the first French woman to have won the prize.

Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, in recognition of the “courage and clinical acuity” with which she has mined her personal experiences as a woman of working-class background to explore life in France since World War II.

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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the French writer Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Alice McCrum, Programs Manager at the American Library in Paris, tells us more about Ernaux and…

Writer and critic Catherine Taylor explains how the French writer became the ‘great chronicler to a generation’• Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature

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French author Annie Ernaux, whose novels draw on personal experience of class and gender, has won the Nobel Literature Prize. The jury praised "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".