Similarly to when Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 prize, the recognition given to Ernaux's work would attract readers in English, he said. Jason Whittaker, head of English and Journalism at University of Lincoln in Britain, said the prize should bring more attention to the genre of women's autobiography, "which is very often overlooked in what is still a male-dominated sphere". "It is a ruthlessly honest text, where in parentheses she adds reflections in a vitally lucid voice, addressing herself and the reader in one and the same flow," the academy said. The academy said her "clinically restrained narrative" about a 23-year-old narrator's abortion remained a masterpiece among her works. "Until my last breath, I will fight for women's right to choose whether they want to be a mother or not."Įrnaux also touched on the political power won by the far right in countries around Europe in recent years, saying "the extreme right in history has never been favourable to women".
"I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged," Ernaux told reporters in Paris.
"She's a courageous woman." 'RUTHLESSLY HONEST'Ī film adaptation of Ernaux's 2000 novel "Happening", about her experiences of having an abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. "It's a long path that she makes in her life," Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson told Reuters.
"It is her most ambitious project, which has given her an international reputation and a raft of followers and literary disciples," the academy said of that book.īy substituting in her narrative "the spontaneous memory of the self with the third person of collective memory", the academy said of "The Years", Ernaux merges together the personal and collective memory.īorn to a modest family of grocers from Normandy in northern France, Ernaux writes in a frank, direct style about class and how she struggled to adopt the codes and habits of the French bourgeoisie while staying true to her working class background.
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