>French author Annie Ernaux, who mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society.
>Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Ernaux had used the term “an ethnologist of herself” rather than a writer of fiction.
>Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her.
>Her most critically acclaimed book is “The Years” (Les annees), published in 2008 and describing herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the present day.
>“A Girl’s Story,” from 2016, follows a young woman’s coming of age in the 1950s.
Awesome 😀
Second Nobel prize for France this year!
Not to be confused with Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, Shipping News). I had to double check.
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>French author Annie Ernaux, who mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society.
>Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Ernaux had used the term “an ethnologist of herself” rather than a writer of fiction.
>Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her.
>Her most critically acclaimed book is “The Years” (Les annees), published in 2008 and describing herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the present day.
>“A Girl’s Story,” from 2016, follows a young woman’s coming of age in the 1950s.
Awesome 😀
Second Nobel prize for France this year!
Not to be confused with Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, Shipping News). I had to double check.
Congrats!