Hernaud is the 17th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the 16th author from France to be honored with the prize since the prestigious prizes were established in 1901.
French author Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature today for the “courage and clinical acumen” in her mostly autobiographical books, which explore personal memory and social inequality.
Explaining her selection, the Swedish Academy said that Erno, 82, “consistently and from different perspectives examines a life marked by great differences in terms of gender, language and class”.
The first French woman to be honored with the literary prize, Ernot said that the Nobel is a “responsibility”.
“I felt very surprised… I never thought it would be in my landscape as a writer,” Erno told Swedish television SVT. “It is a great responsibility . . . to bear an accurate and just witness to the world.”
“Erno has said that writing is a political act, which opens our eyes to social inequality. And that’s why he uses the language as a ‘knife’, as he calls it, to tear the veils of imagination,” the Academy said.
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in literature Annie Ernaux has said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes for social inequality. For this purpose she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination. pic.twitter.com/TQm6rxjvMp
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
Hernaud is the 17th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the 16th author from France to be honored with the prize since the prestigious prizes were established in 1901.
Her work
Her first novel, Les Armoires Vides, was published in 1974 but gained international recognition after the publication of Les Années in 2008 (in Greek “The Years”, Papyros 2009 and, more recently, Metaichmio, 2021).
“It is her most ambitious project, which has given her international fame and many loyal readers and students,” the Academy said of this book.
The child of a poor family who ran a grocer in Normandy, northern France, Ernot wrote about social classes and how she struggled to adopt the codes and customs of the French bourgeoisie while remaining true to her working-class origins.
An adaptation of Ernot’s 2000 book “The Event” (the book was released this year in Greek by Metaichmio) about her experience with abortion when it was illegal in France in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival in 2021.
The Academy said her “clinically understated account of a 23-year-old’s illegal abortion in the book remains a masterpiece among her works.
“It is a mercilessly honest text, where she parenthetically adds thoughts in a vitally clear voice, addressing herself and the reader in one and the same flow,” the academy said.
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