the Nobel Prize awarded to the writer Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux, who has made her life the common thread of her work, obtains, at 82, the Nobel Prize for Literature, Thursday, October 6. Daughter of grocers, she wrote about twenty books and published her first novel in 1974. Committed and feminist, she paints, through her books, the portrait of a generation by talking about marriage, passion, abortion . Annie Ernaux delivers herself in her writings. Crowned with numerous literary prizes, her books are known to the general public.

“I keep very vivid memories of him as a sincere and direct person who does not hide what can be difficult in the condition of women”, testifies a reader. In 2021, two novels by Annie Ernaux were adapted to the cinema: easy passion and The Event, which traces the journey of a student who wishes to have an abortion in the 1960s, despite the law. This Nobel Prize, the first awarded to a Frenchwoman, rewards a writer who has become a feminist icon.