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Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize celebrates a uniquely resonant voice in French literature

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.

France 24

‘We are made of words’: the radically intimate writing of Annie Ernaux

She offers us her own life, her own pain, without shame – and gives voice to the silences of women. For this the Nobel prizewinner deserves to be celebrated

The Guardian - UK

Literature Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s best quotes from her 50 years of writing

The French author has finally laid claim to the Nobel Prize for Literature — and boy does she deserve it

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A quick look at the 2022 Nobel Prizes

The 2022 Nobel Prizes have been announced this week after secret deliberations by the award committees

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Morning mail: Zelenskiy appeals to Australia, 37 dead in Thailand attack, Annie Ernaux’s Nobel win

Friday: Ukraine’s president has urged world leaders not to give in to Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’. Plus: should Labor scrap the stage-three tax cuts?

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French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

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…

France 24

Annie Ernaux: the 2022 Nobel literature laureate’s greatest works

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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Who is Annie Ernaux? Five things to know about the Nobel Prize in Literature winner

“In France, literature is a man’s world,” the trailblazing Nobel Prize winner once said

Evening Standard

Gritty French novelist Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature Prize

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".

Radio France Internationale

A quick look at the 2022 Nobel Prizes

The 2022 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week after secret deliberations by the award committees

The Independent UK

Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to French author Annie Ernaux

She was awarded the prize “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory”

Evening Standard

French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

Ernaux is known for her novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender.

Al Jazeera

France's Ernaux, who long scrutinised self, wins Nobel literature prize

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality.

Reuters

Annie Ernaux of France wins Nobel Literature prize

STOCKHOLM: French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

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French writer Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

Erneaux is known for her semi-autobiographical works. The permanent secretary noted her "clinical acuity" in examining personal memory.

The Guardian - UK

Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature

The French author of mostly autobiographical work takes the prestigious books prize for the ‘courage and clinical acuity’ of her writing

The Independent UK

French author Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Nobel Prize organisers said they hadn’t been able to reach French author to tell her the good news yet

France 24

French novelist, memoirist Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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.

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The Guardian - UK

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux review – adrift in desire

The French writer’s record of an obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat is a riveting, sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust

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Jennifer Down wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bodies of Light, a novel about living with trauma

Melbourne author Jennifer Down has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in Australian literature, for her third book, Bodies of Light.

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Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Los Angeles Times

How French drama 'Happening' centers the dangerous stakes of illegal abortion

The new film "Happening" is set in 1963 and yet it suddenly feels like a possible window into the future.

The Independent UK

Powerful French abortion drama ‘Happening’ lands in US

When writer-director Audrey Diwan first read Annie Ernaux's memoir about being a 23-year-old college student seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy at a time when it was illegal to do so in France, she didn't see a drama, she saw a suspenseful thriller

Radio France Internationale

American Kelly Reichardt to be feted at Cannes with coveted Carrosse d’Or

Kelly Reichardt will be awarded the Carrosse d’Or award on 18 May in Cannes, during the Directors’ Fortnight’s opening ceremony. The American filmmaker’s latest opus "Showing Up" is also running in the main competition.

Evening Standard

Happening movie review: Sublime, in the truest sense of the word

Director Audrey Diwan loves a long shot - but doesn’t waste a single second of our time in this adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s book

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