French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature.
STOCKHOLM — 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.
Ernaux started out writing autobiographical novels, but quickly abandoned fiction in favor of memoirs. Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her. They present uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents.“She has achieved something admirable and enduring,” he told reporters after the announcement in Stockholm, Sweden.
In the book that made her name, “La Place” , about her relationship with her father, she writes: “No lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony. This neutral writing style comes to me naturally.”Her most critically acclaimed book is “The Years” , published in 2008 and describing herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the present day.
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