Annie Ernaux: an “uncompromising” French author wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

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French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel called a 50-year-old "uncompromising" work exploring "a life marked by great disparities in gender, language and class".

The prestigious the honor is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£807,000).

She said it was "a great honour" .

Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, chairman of the committee, said the 82-year-old's work was "admirable and enduring". tell semi-autobiographical stories that uncover "the contradictions of social experience [and] depict shame, humiliation, jealousy, or the inability to see who you are".

The winner of this year's #NobelPrize for Literature, Annie Ernaux, said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes to social inequalities. To this end, she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear the veils of the imagination. pic.twitter.com/TQm6rxjvMp

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