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French author Annie Ernaux, whose novels draw on personal experience of class and gender, has won the Nobel Literature Prize. The jury praised "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers…

Day laborers had lost their jobs. farmers were already facing one of the worst droughts in decades. so by late october, november, december, you were seeing mothers and grandmothers bringing in kids who were already severely malnourished because they had hadnt a proper meal at that point. and those are folks who would usually had things to get them through the winter. so theyre bringing kids in trying to get life-saving treatment. and once they were stable enough, theyre going back to rural villa...