Known for the award”courage and clinical acuityAccording to the Academy, in a statement the author “reveals the roots, alienations, and collective limitations of personal memory.”
Ernaux “believes the liberating power of writingThe organization added that its “uncompromising” work was written in “plain” language and “cleaned up”. The Frenchwoman clinched the Swedish Academy, where she “reveals the agony of class experience” in her work and has achieved “something admirable and enduring” with “shame, humiliation, Jealousy, or the inability to see who she is”.
Born in Normandy in 1940, Ernaux made his literary debut with ‘Les armoires vides’ in 1974, but it was his fourth title, ‘La place’ (1983), that launched his literary career. This was followed by works published in Spanish such as ‘El lugar’, ‘La mujer helada’, ‘La Vergüenza’ or ‘El uso de la foto’.
his writing baby from autobiographical experiences She combines fiction, sociology and history to tell stories of her and her family, or personal events such as an abortion or breast cancer.
Winner of the French Language Award in 2008, the artist was awarded the Formentor Award 2019 for performing “a relentless exercise of accuracy that penetrates the most intimate parts of consciousness,” according to the jury.
Although British Salman Rushdie, Russian Liudmila UlÃtskaya and Frenchman Michel Houllebecq dominate the Nobel Literature Prize pools, Ernaux’s name was also heard in this year’s winner predictions.
Source: Informacion
