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PARIS (dpa-AFX) - French author Annie Ernaux, 82, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Announcing the laureate for 2022 on Thursday, Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, said
Ernaux has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, illuminating murky corners of memory, family and society.
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“She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth,” said Anders Olsson of the Swedish Academy.
French author Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots,
Erneaux is known for her semi-autobiographical works. The permanent secretary noted her "clinical acuity" in examining personal memory.