A backstreet abortion nearly killed her. It became a story that shaped the rest of her life

Writer Annie Ernaux - whose work fearlessly examines her own life - went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Meet the Author Whose Fiction Reads Like a Mirror You Didn’t Expect to Look Into

Annie Ernaux’s fiction reflects class, memory and desire with unsettling clarity, holding up a mirror many readers did not ...
Los Angeles Times

In honoring Annie Ernaux, the literature Nobel Prize gets it exactly right

On the one hand, it couldn’t be more timely. Annie Ernaux, the 82-year-old French writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature this morning, is perhaps best known — in the United States, at any rate ...
New Republic

Annie Ernaux’s Complex Passions

What more can be said about Annie Ernaux, novelist, memoirist, leftist, reluctant member of the French literary elite? Since she won the Nobel Prize in literature in October 2022, she’s been fêted and ...
Publishers Weekly

Books by Annie Ernaux and Complete Book Reviews

For this Prix Renaudot-winning author, childhood was not just a time of life but a cottage industry. A trilogy of books intersect at her youth: the story of Ernaux's father, told in La Place ; her ...
Mint

Best books written by Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. known for her deceptively-simple writing. She is one of the 17 women who have been awarded with the prestigious Nobel ...
The Times of Israel

French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux, who mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that ...
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The Power Of Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux

It's tough to pinpoint when I fell in love with Annie Ernaux’s writing, but if I had to guess it would be while reading a passage about excrement, from her 1999 book I Remain in Darkness (translated ...
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Annie Ernaux at 84: How ‘oversharing’ made the Nobel Prize winner the master of the memoir

Annie Ernaux’s writing is informed by her fondness of everyday experiences, like many of us. But her process of articulating these experiences slips through her narration; it almost feels like she is ...
Los Angeles Times

Unorthodox French memoirist Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize in literature

STOCKHOLM — French author Annie Ernaux, who has fearlessly mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work that ...
NPR

French writer Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French writer Annie Ernaux is the newest Nobel laureate in literature. She is widely admired in France and among those who love French feminist literature. French writer Annie Ernaux is the newest ...