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Annie Ernaux’s memoir Getting Lost reveals the reality of her consuming affair with a younger, married diplomat in Paris.

Annie Ernaux’s memoir reveals the reality of her affair with the Soviet diplomat that inspired her novel Simple Passion.

"I have a $10 bill, and buying things in cash these days makes me feel like I’m getting it for free."

An appreciation of the unique literary method of French author Annie Ernaux, who received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.

The author and poet recommends works by Toni Morrison, Rebecca Solnit, and more

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

The first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux's work combines the personal and intimate with the great, collective sweep of history

Her body of work includes discussions on the act and art of writing, texts incorporating personal photographs, intimate and public diaries, and life-writing that refuses to be contained by categories.

Annie Ernaux is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

STOCKHOLM/PARIS - French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality. In explaining its choice, the Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, "consistently and from different angles examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class". Ernaux,...