2022 Nobel Prize in Literature given to French author Annie Ernaux

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2022 Nobel Prize in Literature given to French author Annie Ernaux

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was given to French author Annie Ernaux on Thursday by the Royal Swedish Academy in recognition of her daring and clinical insight in exposing the origins, estrangements, and societal restrictions of individual memory.

The French novelist Annie Ernaux has been given the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for her bravery and clinical acuity in exposing the origins, estrangements, and societal restrictions of human memory, according to the Nobel Prize's official Twitter account.

The French author Annie Ernaux, who will receive the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1940 and raised in the Normandy village of Yvetot where her parents had a grocery shop and café. Her road to writing was a gruelling one," the added a tweet

The Nobel Prize winner addresses a life characterised by stark differences regarding gender, language, and class in her work consistently and from many viewpoints. She's produced more than 30 literary works.

Ernaux analyses the societal mythology of romantic love in his 2002 book, "L'occupation." She confesses to having a self-image based on stereotypes and challenges it on the basis of journal entries documenting her being dumped by a partner. Writing turns become a precise instrument for analysing reality.

According to Ernaux, writing is a political act that exposes social inequalities. She utilises words as "a knife," as she puts it, to cut through the barriers of imagination in order to achieve this.

Annie Ernaux has accomplished something good and enduring when she bravely and clinically articulates the misery of the experience of class, articulating shame, humiliation, envy, or the incapacity to see who you are.

Ernaux, a Nobel Prize winner, feels that writing has a liberating effect. Her writing is straightforward, uncompromising, and bare-bones.

And she has accomplished something wonderful and enduring when, with tremendous bravery and clinical precision, she describes the misery of the experience of class, articulating shame, humiliation, envy, or the incapacity to see who you are.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist, took home the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature last year.

Gurnah, who was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar, is the author of eight novels and several short tales. His whole body of art is centred on the idea of the refugee's disturbance. While Swahili was his native language, English became his literary medium when he was 21 years old and living in exile in England.

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