Ernaux honoured ‘for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory’.
French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
Ernaux was honoured “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements…