Eighty two year old French writer Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.
On the 6th of October, Thursday, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in Sweden, announced the winner in the literature field, which was given to Ms. Ernaux for her ‘uncompromising, plain language, scraped clean,’ writing.
Highlighting about Ms. Annie Ernaux, she was born in 1940, in a small town of Yevtot, Normandy, where her parents owned a grocery store as well as a cafe. At an early age, Annie had a poor setting and struggles but was ambitious. She started writing at an early age and made her debut with her book Les armoires vides (Cleaned Out, 1990) in 1970. The basic idea of Annie’s writings is to show disparities regarding gender, language and class.
Although Ms. Annie Ernaux started writing in 1970, it was her fourth book in 1983, La place (A Man’s Place, 1992) that marked her breakthrough. A statement by the Nobel committee read, “Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.”
Ernaux declares that she is an “ethnologist of herself” rather than a writer of fiction. Most of her works chart her parents’ social progression, from a proletariat setting to bourgeois life. She has also mapped several aspects of her own life in her books.
The Nobel Prize laureate has said that writing is a political act “opening our eyes for social inequality.” “For this purpose she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination,” the Swedish Academy stated.
Some of her famous books include A Woman’s Story, A Man’s Place, and Simple Passion.
Furthermore, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize would be announced on the 7th of October and the economics award on the 10th of Oct.
Meanwhile, The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on December 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
Stay tuned for further updates.
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