![]() “And yet these are tremendous works of the imagination.” “Everything she writes, every word, is literal and factually true,” said Dan Simon, the founder of Seven Stories Press, which has been publishing Ernaux in English for 31 years. While early on in her career Ernaux wrote autobiographical fiction, she quickly cast off any pretense that she was inventing a plot and began writing memoirs, though she has often resisted labeling her work as either fiction or nonfiction. She is the second woman to receive the prize in three years after Louise Glück, the American poet, was given 2020’s award. ![]() “Speaking from my condition as a woman,” she said, “it does not seem to me that we, women, have become equal in freedom, in power.”Įrnaux becomes only the 17th woman to have been awarded the prize, which has been given to 119 writers since it was formed in 1901. She felt compelled, in particular, to keep examining the inequality and struggles that women face. “To receive the Nobel Prize is, for me, a responsibility to continue,” she said. Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which decides the prize, announced the decision at a news conference in Stockholm, lauding the “courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”Īt a news conference at the Paris offices of her publisher, Gallimard, Ernaux, 82, promised to keep writing. It was a striking choice by the Nobel committee to honor a writer whose work is woven from intensely personal and often ordinary experiences. ![]()
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