Annie Ernaux: Writing Memory, Class, And Womanhood (World Literature)

Born in 1940 in Lillebonne, Normandy, Annie Ernaux is a literary alchemist who transforms the raw material of her life - shame, desire, grief and the passage of time - into universal meditations on identity and society. Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for her 'courage and clinical acuity' in exploring personal and collective memory, Ernaux has redefined autobiography by defying genre with her 'flat writing', a spare, unadorned style that blurs the boundaries between diary, hist...