Nobel literature prize 2022 awarded to French author Annie Ernaux

Oct 07,2022:The Nobel prize in literature for the year 2022 was awarded to Annie Ernaux on Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Annie Ernaux has been given the award “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”, the Nobel prize committee said.
On restraints of personal memory, forging new ones and estrangements, Annie Ernaux’s prose has been able to capture it all without verbosity. Her engagement with daily life in France through her work is diligent, looking at social disparities like gender, language and class neither through rose-tinted glasses, nor through abject derision but through a dignified, almost anonymous distance.