French author Annie Ernaux awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
French author Annie Ernaux is awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022. for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. The Nobel Prize comes with a medal and a prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (about $911,400).
In the little Normandy hamlet of Yvetot, where her parents ran a grocery shop and café, the writer Annie Ernaux was born in 1940. Her upbringing was modest but aspirational; her parents had risen from proletariat squalor to a bourgeois existence; and although memories of battered earth floors never completely vanished, politics were hardly discussed.
Ernaux constantly and from many perspectives investigates a life characterized by significant differences in terms of gender, language, and class in her literature. Her journey to authorship was tough and protracted.
Her rural upbringing-related memory work first emerged as a project that aimed to expand the definition of literature beyond narrowly defined fiction. She claims that she is a “ethnologist of herself” rather than a fiction writer while having a classic, recognizable style.
In her latest book, “Les armoires” vides (1974; “Cleaned Out,” 1990), Annie Ernaux began exploring her Norman heritage. However, it wasn’t until her fourth book, “La place” (1983; “A Man’s Place,” 1992), that she achieved literary success. She created a detached portrayal of her father and the complete social environment that had fundamentally shaped him in just a few hundred pages. Her evolving restrained and morally driven aesthetics, where her style has been fashioned hard and transparent, were applied in the photograph. It raised the bar for a group of autobiographical writing pieces.
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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 more than 20 books, have been used as school texts in France for decades, offer one of the most subtle, insightful windows into the social life of modern French society.
Ms. Ernaux will receive the Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the third Nobel this week for chemistry. The prize’s total worth is $915,072. following the physiology or medical awards on Monday and the physics awards on Tuesday. The awards rank among the highest in the field of science.
