Annie Ernaux will deliver the Nobel prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2022 at 5pm CET. It will be available to watch with transcription in English (source: The Nobel Prize/ YouTube).

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Literature Nobel Prize to Annie Ernaux. Their announcements reads: “Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.”

Un grand bravo, Annie!

 

Today we’re seeing the publication of Getting Lost, the translation of Ernaux’s Se perdre (2001) – the diary written at the time of her romance with a Russian diplomat. Translated by Alison L. Strayer for the first time, Getting Lost is being published by Fitzcarraldo editions in the UK and by Seven Stories Press in the USA.

Annie Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot were invited to the Cannes festival to present their film Les Années super 8 which consists in home video footage shot between 1972 and 1981. The film was directed by David Ernaux-Briot, with text written and read by Annie Ernaux .

Image: Les Films Pelléas.

At the 2022 Turin book festival, Annie Ernaux has been awarded the Mondello Prize.

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On the 30th November 2021 Annie Ernaux was selected as one of the 12 inaugural international writers to join the Royal Society of Literature’s International Writers programme, a new award recognising the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English, and the power of literature to transcend borders and to bring people together. At a time of rising nationalism, RSL International Writers celebrates the many ways in which literature can shape a future world. Each year new writers will receive this life-long honour and be invited to join the RSL’s International Writers, forming an ever-expanding global community of authors.