French author Annie Ernaux has staunchly defended a woman’s right to abortion after winning this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.
French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “Annie Ernaux has been writing for 50 years the novel of the collective and intimate memory of our country. Her voice is that of women’s freedom, and the century’s forgotten ones.”
Dan Simon, Ernaux's longtime American publisher at Seven Stories Press, said that in the early years, “she insisted that we not categorize her books at all. She did not allow us to refer to them as fiction and she did not allow us to refer to them as nonfiction.”"She’s a great storyteller of her own life," Simon said.
“La honte” , published in 1997, explored a childhood trauma, while"L’événement" , from 2000, dealt like “Cleaned Out” with an illegal abortion. Ernaux has described facing scorn from France's literary establishment because she is a woman from a working-class background. More than a dozen French writers have captured the literature prize, though Ernaux is the first French woman to win, and just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates.
Ernaux said she wasn't sure what she would do with the Nobel's cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor .
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