The Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 was awarded this Thursday, October 6, 2022, to the French Annie Ernaux.
The Swedish Academy indicated that this prize was awarded to Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity which it shows to reveal the roots, the distancing and the collective constraints of personal memory”.
Professor of literature at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Annie Ernaux has already won the Renaudot Prize in 1984 for “the place” and was a finalist of the prestigious Booker International Prize in 2019. She wrote about twenty stories, in which she dissects the weight of class domination and love passion, two themes that have marked her torn woman’s route because of her popular origins.
Writer claimed on the left, Annie Ernaux feeds on Bourdieusian sociology whose discovery in the 1970s allows her to identify the “social discomfort” which gnaws at her when she entered a private school in the 1950s.
