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SEPT. 30 - OCT. 6, 2022

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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…

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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".

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

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

Stockholm (AFP) - French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, was on Thursday awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.