Nobel 2022: The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Annie Ernaux
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux, who succeeds Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The 82-year-old writer is being rewarded for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, distances and collective constraints of personal memory,” explained the Nobel jury.
Of the 329 proposals (and direct applications) received at the Stockholm Academy before the summer, five names had been selected by the jurors in October, according to the rules in force. But none of them had filtered. It was therefore the English bookmakers’ circle that had to turn to know the favorites of this year.
Until yesterday, the Bittranic bettors favored the French writers Michel Houellebecq and Annie Ernaux, the Canadian poet Anne Carson and Adonis, pseudonym of the Syrian writer Ali Ahmed Said
This prestigious award was created in 1901 to honor a writer who had rendered great services to humanity through a literary work “(having) demonstrated a powerful ideal”, according to the will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel who founded the academy that bears his name. Since its inception, the Swedish Academy has essentially awarded awards to male authors.
Only 16 women were favored by this Swedish institution against 101 men, according to the point.
