French author Annie Ernaux is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Ernaux, 82, was cited for „the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements,.
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French author Annie Ernaux is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Ernaux, 82, was cited for „the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory,“ the Nobel committee said. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, per the AP. „Annie Ernaux manifestly believes in the liberating force of writing,“ Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee, says in a release. „Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean.“ The Nobel Committee added in a tweet that Ernaux has said „that writing is a political act, opening our eyes for social inequality.
