Annie Ernaux, French feminist who uses language as 'a knife', wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- Written by: Véronique Duché, A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
Annie ErnauxChristophe Petit Tesson/EPAAnnie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 6. The 82-year-old writer, whose sociological autofiction and memoir is influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu, is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since the founding of the awards in 1901. Ernaux also...
