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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. Ernaux received the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of work that has been described a...

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