French author Annie Ernaux gets Nobel Prize in Literature
According to the Nobel Prize's website, her writing "examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class."
New Delhi: The 2022 Nobel Prize in the field of Literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. The Swedish Academy awarded Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” Mats Palm, the secretary of the Swedish Academy announced the award for the 82-year-old writer in Stockholm on October 6.
According to the Nobel Prize’s website, her writing “examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class.” She has authored more than 20 books, out of which most of them are short autobiographical novels presenting uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and death of her parents. Her book ‘La Place’ (A Man’s Place) brought her into the limelight. The book explores her relationship with her father. She describes her writing style to be ‘flat’ or ‘neutral’.
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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
Her most critically acclaimed book is ‘Les Annees’ (The Years) published in 2008, where she explores French society after World War II. In the book, unlike her other works, she wrote in the third person.
Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature, talking about Ernaux’s writing said that her writing is ‘uncompromised and plain’. “She has achieved something admirable and enduring,” he added.
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
– Rabindranath Tagore, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for his sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry. He became the first non-European literature laureate. pic.twitter.com/0A0HjkwRai
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Meanwhile, before the announcement in the morning, the Nobel Prize Committee also remembered Indian author and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. Paying a tribute to Tagore, The Nobel Prize tweeted, “Rabindranath Tagore, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for his sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry. He became the first non-European literature laureate.”