Nobel Prize

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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Carin Klaesson, Content Manager of Public Programs at the Nobel Prize Museum, sat down to talk to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on 28 April 2022. In a wide ranging conversation they spoke about his journey to the Nobel Prize. Abdulrazak Gurnah, such a pleasure sitting here together…

Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah, February 2022 Nobelprize.org spoke to our 2021 literature laureate on 25 February 2022. He told us about his early days as a reader, the importance of stories and how he sees his work as the same as any other type of job. For a written version of this interview please see…

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/sDEjjlW_r34 Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Mikaela Kumlin Granit during a ceremonial presentation at the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence in London, UK on 6 December 2021.

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