Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize laureate in literature 2022 Annie Ernaux reads (in French) from her book L’événement (Happening). The video was recorded in Stockholm on 6 December 2022. English Excerpt from Happening For many years I celebrated the night of January 20-21 as an anniversary. Now I know that this ordeal and this sacrifice were necessary for me…

Interview, December 2022 Interview with 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Annie Ernaux, recorded in Stockholm on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. The video interview is in French with English subtitles. Annie Ernaux answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Tell us about your…

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 to Annie Ernaux, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 6 October 2022. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a very strong prose, both brief and uncompromising” Following the announcement, Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, was interviewed…

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Swedish Biobibliografi Den franska författaren Annie Ernaux föddes 1940 och växte upp i det lilla samhället Yvetot i Normandie, där hennes föräldrar drev speceriaffär och café. Hemmiljön var påver men ambitiös, där föräldrarna långsamt hade rest sig ur lägsta arbetarklass till en småborgerlig tillvaro, där minnet av det stampade jordgolvet aldrig försvann, men där man ogärna…

English Biobibliography The French writer Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy, where her parents had a combined grocery store and café. Her setting was poor but ambitious, with parents who had pulled themselves up from proletarian survival to a bourgeois life, where the memories of beaten earth floors never…

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande6 oktober 2022 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2022 Annie Ernaux Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2022 tilldelas den franska författaren Annie Ernaux, ”för det mod och den kliniska skärpa varmed hon avtäcker det personliga minnets rötter, främlingskap och kollektiva ramar”.

English The Permanent Secretary Press release6 October 2022 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Annie Ernaux The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux, “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.

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