The writer officially received this Saturday in Stockholm, her Nobel Prize for Literature. The world had obtained a preview of his speech.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 10, the writer Annie Ernaux received her prize this Saturday afternoon in Stockholm, Sweden. The newspaper The world had published his speech in preview.
A speech that retraces his career and evokes this imperious desire that animates his work, that of “avenging [sa] race”, as she wrote in her diary sixty years ago.
“I proudly and naively thought that writing books, becoming a writer, at the end of a line of landless peasants, workers and petty traders, people despised for their manners, their accent, their lack of culture, would be enough to repair the social injustice of birth,” she said in that speech.
“Secret and absolute emergency”
The author says her taste for reading – “books were my companions” – evokes her studies of letters and her first novel refused “by two or three publishers”, which for a time extinguished her desire to write. Desire to which the death of his father, but also the fact of teaching students from working-class backgrounds and “worldwide protest movements give” a character of secret and absolute urgency “.
“I do not look at the awarding of the Nobel Prize to me as an individual victory,” she said, still ensuring that she shared the pride of this “collective victory” “with those who, in one way or another. another, want more freedom, equality and dignity for all humans, regardless of sex and gender, skin and culture”.
In a recent interview with Parisian, the novelist was delighted that it was she, rather than Michel Houellebecq, also approached, who received this Nobel Prize. “Let’s have an audience with this award, given his deleterious ideas, frankly, it’s better that it’s me!”, She let go.