It is also possible that he will learn of his triumph from the online media. Concurrently with the announcement of the results, the Nobel Committee announced that “it has not yet been able to contact Annie Ernaux”.
But he is in contact with his son.
Link with sociology
The 82-year-old author received the award for the precision and courage with which she examines human memory in her literary texts. Their books also include an in-depth sociological view of the environment they write about.
“Ernaux consistently examines a life marked by strong differences in gender, language and class from different angles,” said Anders Olsson, a Swedish writer and literary critic who chairs the committee for the Nobel Prize’s literary section, of the award.
Books also in Czech
Ernaux is otherwise best known for her autobiographical books. Incidentally, her memoirs entitled Roky were published in Czech.
In them he tells “a personal story in which he describes the years from 1940 to 2006 through his memories, impressions of the past and present, but at the same time he draws from them forecasts of the future”.
Photographs, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and newspaper headlines contrast with his inner struggles and diary entries, which he has carefully preserved for six decades.
In the French environment, the writer has been one of the most popular classics for decades.
Annie Ernaux
- born on 1 September 1940 as Annie Duchesne, she grew up in the small Norman town of Yvetot
- has two children, Eric and David
- he is politically active, he supports, among other things, the French left, in particular he supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon
- she studied at the University of Rouen, then in Bordeaux, and later became a secondary school teacher
- from 1977 to 2000 she was a lecturer at the Center national d’enseignement par correspondence (National Center for Distance Learning – ed)
- he made his debut in France with the book Les armoires vides in 1974
- his first book in English was published in 1990, his title was Cleaned Out
- his fourth book, La Place (1983), was a turning point in the great literary world.
- in 2008 he won the prestigious Prix Renaudot literary prize in France for Roka, the book was selected for another prize, the Man Booker International Prize, after being translated into English
- in 2017 he received the Marguerite Yourcenar Award for Lifetime Achievement
- in 2022 the Nobel Prize for Literature “for the courage and clinical acumen with which he reveals the roots, alienation and collective limits of personal memory”
- his books have also been published in Czech, including the award-winning Roky
