French creator Annie Ernaux received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the braveness and medical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of non-public reminiscence”, the award-giving physique mentioned on Thursday.
Ernaux, whose work is usually autobiographical, is 82.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is value 10 million Swedish crowns ($914,704).
In explaining its selection, the Academy mentioned Ernaux “constantly and from totally different angles, examines a life marked by sturdy disparities concerning gender, language and sophistication”.
Her debut novel was Les Armoires Vides in 1974 however she gained worldwide recognition following the publication of Les Années in 2008, translated into The Years in 2017.
“It’s her most formidable challenge, which has given her a world repute and a raft of followers and literary disciples,” the Academy mentioned of that e book.
The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace have been established within the will of Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, whose invention of dynamite made him wealthy and well-known, and have been awarded since 1901.
Whereas many earlier literature winners have been already broadly learn earlier than touchdown the prize, the award generates enormous media consideration and may catapult lesser recognized authors to world fame whereas spurring e book gross sales even for literary superstars.
Some prizes have gone to writers from outdoors mainstream literary genres, together with French thinker Henri Bergson in 1927, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1953 and American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 2016.
Precisely predicting the winner of the literature award is educated guesswork at finest and favourites to win this yr’s prize included a string of authors who’ve been thought of to be excessive within the working for years.
Among the many bookies’ favourites for this yr’s prize have been French author Michel Houellebecq, who gained worldwide fame along with his 1998 novel Atomised, Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Canadian poet Anne Carson and India-born Salman Rushdie.
Rushdie was stabbed in New York state in August as he was making ready to ship a lecture, sustaining critical accidents.
Final yr’s prize, broadly seen because the world’s most prestigious literary award, was received by Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.
