The award was given for research and reflection of the collective limitations of personal memory.
The Nobel Week continues in Stockholm, during which announce the winners of the prestigious award. Yes, yesterday the winners of the Chemistry Prize became known, and today the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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This year, the prize will go to Annie Ernot with the wording “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she reveals the roots, alienation and collective limitations of personal memory”.
The Nobel Committee noted that more could not contact the writer by phone, but hope to do so soon.
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The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” pic.twitter.com/D9yAvki1LL— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Annie Ernot was born in 1940 in a small town in Normandy, where her parents ran a grocery store and a cafe. They went from “proletarian survival” to “bourgeois life”, but never forgot their roots and did not touch politics. “In her works, Erno explores a life marked by strong differences in terms of gender, language and class,” the Nobel Committee said in a statement. will be typical for further works. All of Erno's novels in one way or another reflect episodes of her biography.
Erno is a laureate of a number of literary prizes. Among them are the Renaud Award (1984, the novel La Place), the Marguerite Duras Award (2008, Les Années), the François Mauriac Award (2008, Les Années), and the French Language Award (2008, for a body of work). Since 2014, she has been an honorary doctorate at Sergi-Pontoise University.
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