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The Nobel Prize for Literature was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. French author Annie Ernaux, aged 82, known for her novels about class and gender based on her personal experience, he won the award for “the courage and clinical acuity with which he discovers the roots, the distances and the collective restrictions of personal memory”, he explained the jury.
Ernaux “believes in the liberating force of writing” and his “Uncompromising” work is written in “plain” language and “scraped clean,” the organization added.
In her work, the French woman “reveals the agony of the class experience” and describes emotions such as “shame, humiliation, jealousy or the inability to see who you are”, with what he has achieved “something admirable and lasting”, stressed the Swedish Academy.
Speaking to Swedish television, the writer said that receiving the award was “a great n honor”, but also a great “responsibility”.
Born in 1940 in Normandy, Ernaux made his literary debut in 1974 with “Les armoires vides”, but it was his fourth title, “La place” (1974 ) the one that launched his literary career.
He was followed by works that have been edited in Spanish, such as “El lugar”, “La mujer helada”, “La Vergüenza” or “El uso de la foto”.
Her writing draws from autobiographical experiences and blends fiction, sociology and history to narrate stories of her family or personal events such as her abortion or breast cancer.
Distinguished with the French Language Prize in 2008, was awarded the Formentor Prize 2019 for a work that According to the jury, it makes “a relentless exercise of truthfulness that penetrates the most intimate recesses of conscience”.
Although the British Salman Rushdie, the Russian Liudmila Ulítskaya and the French Michel Houllebecq dominated the pools for the Nobel Prize for Literature , the name of Ernaux had also sounded in the conjectures about this year’s winner.
Only the Nobel Peace Prize remains to be announced this year (tomorrow) and Economics (Monday), after Physics have already been announced, for quantum mechanics researchers; Chemistry, for Barry Sharpless (who receives it for the second time); and Medicine, to Svante Pääbo for his findings on the human genome.
lgc (afp / efe / rtr)