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French author Annie Ernaux, who has 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 ...
French author Annie Ernaux, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 2022, poses for a photograph. Francesca Mantovani-editions Gallimard / Handout via Reuters ...
Eribon first met Ernaux in 2002, shortly after the death of Pierre Bourdieu, a leading French sociologist and globalization critic. She had always been “a great personal inspiration,” he added.
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Books by French author Annie Ernaux are displayed following the announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Borshuset, Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
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The book “The Years” (Les annees), published in 2008, by French author Annie Ernaux is displayed during the announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Borshuset, Stockholm, Sweden ...
PARIS (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working ...