The Prize awarded by the Swedish Academy “for the courage and clinical acuity with which he revealed the roots, the estrangements and the collective bonds of personal memory”
IS Annie Ernaux the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she revealed the roots, the estrangements and the collective constraints of personal memory”. The 82-year-old French writer award was announced bySwedish Academy.
The profile
Born in Lillebone, in Normandy, in 1940, Annie Ernaux is there seventeenth woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Through an essentially autobiographical work, with memoirs like The place, Memories of a girl, The shame, Annie Ernaux has produced a remarkable x-ray of the intimacy of a woman that has evolved with the upheavals of French society since the war, transforming the writing of her body, of her sensations, of her thoughts into literature. She is the daughter of a shopkeeper, feminist, always published by Gallimard but proudly far from the Paris of the nerd, has published over the years a series of memoirs in which she deals with her childhood, the study that frees her from humble origins, the taboo of sex, the failure of marriage, the death of her father and then of her mother and the senses guilt of a daughter who feels she has betrayed her social class to enter the dominant class. She did it on a level so pure and ferocious as to make a personal story a collective autobiography, a portrait of an era, a vivisection of a historical transition. From the novel The eventin which she recounts the painful experience of a clandestine abortion when she was a student, the film was made The Event which won the Golden Lion for best film at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The sum of his work is in the novel Yearstranslated and published in Italy, like all the others, by Lorenzo Flabbi for his publishing house, L’orma, which had the merit of recovering Ernaux, already released in Italy in the eighties and nineties, without however obtaining success of today.
The predictions
Pending the announcement, rumors and rumors had circulated as always. Among the names that recur from year to year are the Japanese author Haruki Murakami; the Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdieauthor of the bestseller Satanic verses, victim of a stabbing last August; the king of horror Stephen King; the American master of literature Don DeLillo; the French author Michel Houellebecq. And, in no particular order, other well-known names: Milan Kundera, Peter Nadas, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Edna O’Brienour Elena Ferrante (author whose true identity is unknown). Among the hot names of 2022 then those of the Hungarian circulated László Krasznahorkaiof the Norwegian Jon Fosse and the Russian Lyudmila Ulitskaya. And there was also Ernaux herself.
The Nobel Prizes of the past years
In spite of the favorites, in the past it was also some “outsiders” who won the Nobel. This is the case of the last two awards: in 2021 the naturalized British Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, professor emeritus of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent, author of ten novels, all of which are being published in Italy at La nave di Teseo; the most recent is Voices on the run, released in June; and, in 2020, the poet graduate and already Pulitzer winner, Louise luck, American, awarded «for her unmistakable poetic voice which with austere beauty makes the individual’s existence universal»; among his works Faithful and virtuous nightcollection published in Italy by Il Saggiatore.
Identification
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy: the first winner was in 1901 the French poet Sully Prudhomme. France is also the country with the most awards: 15, ahead of the United States (12) and the United Kingdom (11). Also included in the list of winners you are Italianfive men and a woman are, in order of assignment, Giosuè Carducci (1906), Grazia Deledda (1926), Luigi Pirandello (1934), Salvatore Quasimodo (1959), Eugenio Montale (1975) and Dario Fo (1997) .
The award is awarded annually, with exceptions as happened in the 2018 edition when, due to a scandal involving the Academy, the choice was postponed by one year: 2019 saw the proclamation of two winners, one for 2018, the Polish writer Olga Tokarczukand one for 2019, the Austrian author Peter Handke. After the announcement of the winner, which traditionally takes place on the first Thursday of October, the prize is awarded in December during a public ceremony.
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