a b c Joffre, Tzvi (6 October 2022). "New Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's repeatedly supported BDS". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 8 October 2022. Annie Ernaux was born in Seine-Maritime, France, in September 1940. In October 2022 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced". Royal Society of Literature. 30 November 2021. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 25 December 2021. On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Ernaux would be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature [32] [33] "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] Ernaux is the 16th French writer, and the first Frenchwoman, to receive the literature prize. [32] In congratulating her, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that she was the voice "of the freedom of women and of the forgotten". [32]

It was after late bloomer Levy was shortlisted for the Booker prize for Swimming Home, aged 52, that she began her three-volume series of “living autobiographies”. The first, 2013’s Things I Don’t Want To Know, takes George Orwell’s essay Why I Write as a jumping-off point for her reflections on life as a young female writer. The next two books, The Cost of Living and Real Estate, examine what it means to be an artist, a woman, a mother and a daughter, while asking questions about modernity, creative identity and personal freedom. Levy describes the series as “hopefully not being written at the end, with hindsight, but in the storm of life”. the guy in a cinema ad for Paic Vaisselle dishwashing liquid, cheerfully breaking dirty dishes instead of washing them while an offscreen voice sternly intoned ‘That is not the solution!’ and the man, gazing at the audience in despair, asked ‘But what is the solution?’ a b "People / Personnalités / Annie Ernaux". Elle (in French). 6 May 2009. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010 . Retrieved 31 October 2010. A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, which was originally published in 1988 in French, have become contemporary classics in France. Ernaux won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008 for her autobiography The Years, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize in 2019 when it was translated into English by Alison L Strayer. And so it is throughout her story -- which is a story of how memory shifts and fades, the significance of past events weakening even as some remain bright and vivid in our minds, and sometimes the unexpected and/or seemingly incidental making the longest-lasting impression.There's a photo-album-feel to the book, with Ernaux even referring to numerous photographs in the text -- but tellingly not reproducing them, merely describing them, in some detail: this, too, is how the work as a whole comes across: not descriptions of the events etc. per se, but rather of the memory of them that lingers, the pictures no longer in front of us but still vivid -- or blurred -- in the mind's eye. I’ve just finished Happening by Annie Ernaux, in which she writes about her experience of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion in 1960s France. The Yearswas one of my favourite reads of last year and that same rigorous clarity of vision – even when dealing with the complex or ambiguous – is just as evident here again. The experience of living simultaneously on the inside and outside of your own body is very particular to the female experience I think – and not only in relation to pregnancy but in myriad other ways too. I like the measured, unforgiving way she works her way through the logic, or illogic, of that. I find her work extraordinary.’ Annie Ernaux | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. September 1940. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. We discovered the nouveau roman of Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Sollers, and Sarraute, which we wanted to like, but it didn't offer us enough help with out lives.

The White Review Books of the Year 2018| The Year in Literature: frieze | New Statesman Books of the Year 2020 Reynolds, Susan Salter (30 September 2001). "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. p.11-Book Review. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022– via Newspapers.com. The films of the Official Selection 2020". Cannes Film Festival. 3 June 2020. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux ( née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] [2] Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. [3] Early life and education [ edit ]

The Years

Laurin, Danielle (3 April 2008). "Autobiographie: Les années: le livre d'une vie" (in French). CBC/Radio-Canada. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012 . Retrieved 31 October 2010.