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With just a few hours left for the announcement of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, bookies are busy placing their money on a list of probable names that might win this year. Among the list of authors that may win, it seems writer Salman Rushdie is emerging as one of the strong contenders for the prize.  The India-born writer and free speech advocate has spent years in hiding after Iran's clerical rulers issued a fatwa over his 1988 controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses'. 

The 82-year-old has penned more than 20 books, most of them short and blunt about her life and the lives of people around her.

Ernaux's books chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her, including unsparing accounts of sex, illness and her parents' deaths.

She was cited for ‘the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal…

Ernaux honored 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.Fre