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