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Annie Ernaux, née Annie Duchesne, (born September 1, 1940, Lillebonne, France), French author known for her lightly fictionalized memoirs, which are written in spare, detached prose. Her work examines her memories, sometimes revisiting events in later works and reconstructing them, thus revealing the artifice of her own genre. Themes include her illegal abortion, her troubled marriage, her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s, her love affairs during middle age, and her experience with cancer...

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

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

Pierre-Louis Fort, university professor of literature at Cergy-Paris University, speaks to

She offers us her own life, her own pain, without shame – and gives voice to the silences of women. For this the Nobel prizewinner deserves to be celebrated

The French author has written about her life across a series of highly acclaimed memoirs.

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

Annie Ernaux is a French novelist whose intensely personal books have highlighted incidents from her life, including a back-street abortion in the 1960s and a passionate extramarital affair. The Nobel committee cited "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

Writer and critic Catherine Taylor explains how the French writer became the ‘great chronicler to a generation’<br>• Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature

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