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. For this purpose she uses language as ‘a knife,’ as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination.