The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022: Annie Ernaux
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux ‘for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.’
This also makes it three Nobel wins for Fitzcarraldo Editions! (Svetlana Alexievich and Olga Tokarczuk are the others.)
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Translated by Alison L. StrayerGetting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her…
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Translated by Tanya LeslieTaking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived…
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Translated by Tanya LeslieWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and…
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Translated by Tanya LeslieAnnie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux’s father…
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Translated by Alison L. StrayerCo-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about…
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Translated by Tanya LeslieA powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux’s attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile,…
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Translated by Tanya LeslieIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep…
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Translated by Alison L. StrayerWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of…
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Translated by Christopher Beach and Carrie NolandOriginally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie Ernaux. Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the novel tells the…
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Translated by Jonathan KaplanskyForeword by Brian Evenson“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent,…
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