French Author, Ernaux Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
October 7, 2022
5:06 am
French writer, Annie Ernaux, has been announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the Nobel committee chair submitted was an ‘uncompromising’ 50-year body of work exploring ‘a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language, and class.’
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the prestigious honour is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£807,000). Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin, chair of the committee, said the 82-year-old’s work was ‘admirable and enduring.’
He said she used ‘courage and clinical acuity’ to tell semi-autobiographical stories that uncover “the contradictions of social experience …
