“It was his white writing that first attracted me to his books. And the way in which the first person singular allows her to formulate what has never been said before her, and becomes a collective statement as it is universal. The resonance of his name and his texts has continued to have an ever-widening range.
«Pour the event, Annie Ernaux agreed to accompany me throughout the writing of the film. The first times we saw each other, she clarified the blind spots of the story, opened albums to show me how she was dressed or had her hair done. She was in sharing, generosity. She told me: “Of all my books, the event is the one that has least interested journalists.” We were in the early 2000s, it was probably still inappropriate to write about abortion. Thanks to this work, thanks to this autobiographical momentum, the collective appetite and sensitivity have continued to evolve. Annie Ernaux talks very intimately about her life as a woman. If the Nobel jurors have chosen to distinguish this work, it is necessarily this woman’s journey and her way of questioning it that they honor.