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The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in literature at the age of 82. Of the 119 awarded, Ernaux is only the 18th woman Nobel la

French writer Annie Ernaux, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1940 in Normandy. Her works include A Woman's Story and A Man's Place.

Erneaux is known for her semi-autobiographical works. The permanent secretary noted her "clinical acuity" in examining personal memory.

Ernaux has received the award for her “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” 

Ernaux understands that writing honestly about her parents is a form of betrayal – but she does it anyway.

According to The Nobel Prize committee, her book L’occupation (the occupation) “dissects the social mythology of romantic love.”

The Swedish Academy gave the award to French memoirist Annie Ernaux. An icon of autobiographical fiction, the author of "The Years" joins the ranks of other prestigious figures in the literary scene.

Here are five books that secured Annie Ernaux's place as one of the leading voices of her generation in France and on Thursday, the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The 82-year-old professor of literature received the award for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective... 06.10.2022, Sputnik International

Her books include her debut, Cleaned Out, a bracing account of her working-class youth, including the abortion carried out when it was still illegal in France, and A Simple Passion, about her affair with a married foreign diplomat