(6 Oct 2022)
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Stockholm – 6 October 2022
1. Members of the Nobel Committee entering hall
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature:
"Annie Ernaux's writing is subordinated throughout to the process of time. And nowhere else does the power of social conventions over our lives play such an important role as in 'Les Années.' It appeared in 2008, in English, 'The Years.' It is a most ambitious project and has been called the first collective autobiography. It won her an international reputation and a raft of followers and literary disciples."
3. Wide of conference
4. Various of Olsson talking to media
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature:
"Well, I think it has to do with her frankness. That is, she's an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths. She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. I mean, really hard experiences, and she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving."
6. Various of Ernaux's books on display at the Swedish Academy
7. Close of camera screen showing Ernaux's books on display
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature:
"I think the best would be to start with her wonderful portrait of a father. I think 'A Man's Place' I think it's called in English ('La Place' in French). It came early, but it's a fourth book. And it was in that book that she has sort of conquered her very special style as a writer. It also is a portrait that is in a social context. She wants to restore this heritage, the conditions, the hard conditions of life in Normandy."
9. Pan of hall at Swedish Academy
STORYLINE:
French author Annie Ernaux, who has 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 illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society.
Ernaux's autobiographical books explore deeply personal experiences and feelings – love, sex, abortion, shame – within a changing web of social and class relationships.
Much of her material came out of her experiences being raised in a working-class family in the Normandy region of northwest France.
The Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, was recognized for “the courage and clinical acuity" of her writing.
Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Ernaux is “an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths.”
“She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth. I mean, really hard experiences,” he said after the award announcement in Stockholm.
"And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving.”
Ernaux is just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates and is the first French literature laureate since Patrick Modiano in 2014.
Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her.
The book that made her name, “La Place” (A Man’s Place), published in 1983, was about her relationship with her father.
Her most critically acclaimed book is “The Years,” published in 2008, which described herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the 21st century.
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