The Nobel Prizes, which reward those who serve humanity with their work and works, are announced this week. At the Nobel Prizes, which began to be distributed on October 3, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was announced today.
The Nobel Committee awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature to French writer and literature professor Annie Ernaux. Ernaux had achieved fame with his works such as “My Father’s Place”, “Years”, “Simple Passion” and “Empty Cabinets”.
How did Annie Ernaux win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
According to the Nobel Committee’s statement, it was “her work on the courage and clinical sensitivity of the roots of personal memory, its collective repression and alienation” that won Annie Ernaux the Nobel Prize in Literature and 10 million Swedish crowns.
Who is Annie Ernaux?
Born in Normandy in 1940, Ernaux grew up in a relatively poor family. Ernaux, whose parents ran a grocery store and cafe, began to feel ashamed of his own family in his working class when he met middle-class girls at school. But that embarrassment later became what fueled Ernaux’s novels.
Educated at the University of Rouen and Bordeaux, Ernaux began working as a school teacher. Ernaux later earned a master’s degree in modern literature. The literary career of the famous writer started with his autobiography novel “Lex armoires vides” published in 1974.
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