ANNIE ERNAUX RECEIVES THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2022

French writer Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Last Thursday. Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Mats Malm, recognized in the announcement of the concession «Valentía and clinical acuity with which Ernaux discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory». Thus, The writer becomes the seventeenth woman and the sixteenth representative of French literature to receive the decoration.

Annie Ernaux attends the media after the granting of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022

The new winner of the most prestigious literary award in the world explained in a press conference: «Receiving the Nobel is, For me, a responsibility to continue ». Nevertheless, He clarified the words of the representative of the Swedish organization: «I don't have the impression of being brave. It is not courage, It is necessity.

Throughout 50 years, Ernaux has elaborated a narrative career halfway between self -memory and humanities such as history and sociology. thus, It is associated with the self -fiction genre, although she herself has renegated that label. So, He came to define the protagonist of his novels as "a more impersonal" female self ", which is a way of taking distance and observing as if it were another, which does not strictly allow to talk about self -fiction ».

Regarding your own writing style, The author is known for avoiding the ornaments. Ernaux justified this aspect on one occasion: «To avoid miserabilism (Committee of the dominated) or populism (say they are wonderful), There was only one option, A writing of the facts, factual».

His best known book is ‘The Years’, published in 2008. This narrative reviews the evolution of French society since the end of World War II and deals with some of the author's favorite issues such as female experience, The differences between classes and historical memory.

his unwavering faith in God and the numerous trips that brought him into contact with diverse cultures and to settle in Santa Eulària

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