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Taking what she says will be her last lap at Frankfurter Buchmesse, Anne-Solange Noble announces her retirement.

Her win also marks the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time.

STOCKHOLM: 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 corners of memory, family and society. Ernaux’s autobiographical books explore deeply personal experiences and feelings – love, sex, abortion, shame – within a changing

Yes, awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to Ernaux, a chronicler of illegal abortion, is a political move. But it's also a victory for literature

French writer Annie Ernaux used her own life experience to explore life in France since the 1940s. She has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature for work that shines light on dark corners of memory, family and society.

The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($914,704)

French author, Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, often writing about daily life in France for women.

French author Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, will make her Yale Universty Press debut with “Look at the Lights, My Love” in 2023.

French author Annie Ernaux won this years Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s.

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.