Subject of the Month: 2023

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Annie Ernaux: Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

Credit: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach


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Annie Ernaux is a French writer, professor of literature and Nobel laureate. Her literary work is largely autobiographical and explores the social issues of the times.  Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."


Videos

The Nobel Prize website includes an English Transcript of Dr. Ernaux's lecture.

Modern French Fiction

Current French/Francophone Fiction

Analyse de La Place (A Literary Analysis of "La Place" by Annie Ernaux)

Fiction Récente en Langue Française

Databases

French Nobel Laureates to Read

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