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Director Eline Arbo: ‘Theatre is very fake. You have grown up people pretending to die in front of you’

The Norwegian theatre director on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir The Years to the West End, standing on Ivo van Hove’s shoulders, and why live experiences still matter

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Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2024

Kudos to five Annie Ernauxs, a memorably storm-lashed Lear and that Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial musical, while Oedipus reigns supreme

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‘I cut my knees open’: Romola Garai on the agonies unleashed by hit play The Years

Good sex, bad sex, the horror of aerobics and the tyranny of camcorders … the actor writes about starring in Nobel-winner Annie Ernaux’s memoir, our play of the year

The Guardian - UK

‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

The Guardian - UK

Rushdie, Ernaux and Soyinka among authors calling for release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal

Sansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts

The Guardian - UK

Stay With Me by Hanne Ørstavik review – looking for love

The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear

The Guardian - UK

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The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie review – snapshots of intimacy

A joint memoir by the Nobel winner and her former lover uses pictures taken during their time together to reflect on the transient nature of passion – and of life

The Guardian - UK

Nobel Literature goes to South Korean Han Kang, 18th woman to be awarded

With this award a total of 18 women have been awarded the literature prize so far. Read further on Dynamite News:

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South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened

Author, known for her acclaimed work The Vegetarian, honoured for her ‘intense prose that confronts historical traumas’

The Guardian - UK

Breaking makes its Olympics debut, and a series of powerful adaptations – what you should watch and listen to this week

The heady highs and horrible lows, the close finishes, the scandals and the astounding feats of human skill – the Olympics are always a thrilling watch. While this year’s are coming to an end, there is still a lot to see before this Sunday’s closing ceremony, including the first ever…

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The Years: an audacious adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of memoir and sociology

Eline Arbo’s production of The Years at London’s Almeida Theatre is a rare triumph. First adapted into Dutch and premiered in Amsterdam in 2022, the play breathes theatrical life into the Nobel-winning writer Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of the same name, delineating a composite portrait of a woman and a culture…

The Conversation

The Years review – Annie Ernaux’s faint-inducing masterpiece roars into devastating life

Eline Arbo’s profound but playful adaptation celebrates the multitudes contained within a single life, as big history is embodied by womanhood – including Romola Garai’s shatteringly raw abortion scene

The Guardian - UK

The Years at the Almeida Theatre review: there's so much to love in this startling and enthralling show

This stage adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel offers much that’s still unusual in theatre

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The Years review: This Annie Ernaux adaptation is a unique, profoundly moving experience

A stage version of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece, in which five women play the author throughout her life, manages the extraordinary feat of intricately telling the story of a whole life in less than two hours

The Independent UK

London play pauses after graphic abortion scene leaves theatregoers feeling faint

‘The Years’ is based on French author Annie Ernaux’s 2008 autobiography ‘Les Années’

The Guardian - UK

London play paused after theatregoers felt faint during abortion scene

Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene

The Independent UK

Romola Garai: ‘I’d question directors about nude scenes and they’d kick off’

The British actor talks to Jessie Thompson about performing Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece ‘The Years’ on stage, speaking out about the treatment of women in the industry, and why Britain’s attitude to rape is a disgrace

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‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

As a play of the Nobel prize-winner’s memoir The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee and Romola Garai – talk about what the work means to them

The Conversation

‘I had failed to prepare my children for their future’: Alice Robinson’s dystopia raises unsettling ethical questions

Alice Robinson’s third novel (and second foray into speculative fiction) begins with a mother’s bittersweet “second chance at life” – one she never asked for.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

France 24

The failure of Ivory Coast's ban on skin-lightening products

How the ban on skin-lightening products in Ivory Coast has not stopped thousands of women from buying these creams. This as health officials warn of risks such as diabetes and hypertension. Also we head to the Anbar region in Iraq which is undergoing massive reconstruction after the collapse of the…

The Guardian - UK

From the Arctic Circle to the top of European theatre: director Eline Arbo on being ‘an outsider looking in’

The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts

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Writer Annie Ernaux’s works are brought to photographic life in Paris

‘Exteriors’ explores Annie Ernaux’s writing in relationship to photographic mediums, at Maison Européenne de la Photographie until 25 May 2024

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