This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.
Nobel Prize in Literature
On Thursday (Oct. 6), the prestigious award went to the unconventional memoirist “for the courage and clinical acuity
French author Annie Ernaux.
Her first book,
Les Armoires Vides
(
Cleaned Out
), published in 1974, was a fictionalised account of her own back-alley abortion in her early 20s
Since then, she’s continued to write on controversial topics spanning class, gender, sexuality, race, and more
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Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded between 1901 and 2021
The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895
Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in literature for her 'uncompromising' work on family, class and gender
Annie Ernaux
with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.
what a woman . respected woman