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Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux review – supermarket blues

The Nobel laureate’s diaristic reflections on retail leave much to be desired

The Guardian - UK

Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux calls for justice as French students allege sex assault by police

Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate, has backed calls for a thorough investigation after four female students said they were sexually assaulted by police in the western city of Nantes following a protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply contentious pension reform.

France 24

New this week: Lukas Graham, 'That 90’s Show' and 'Jung_E'

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Lukas Graham, the Showtime series “Your Honor” starring Bryan Cranston returns for its second and final season, and “Hellbound” director Yeon Sang-Ho unveils his new sci-fi action pic, the dystopian “Jung_E,” where Earth has become uninhabitable and war is about to…

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How autofiction turns the personal into the political

It is timely that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature went to French writer Annie Ernaux.

The Conversation

France's Annie Ernaux says Nobel win a 'sign of hope' for women writers

French writer Annie Ernaux said she hoped that her Nobel Prize was "a sign of hope for all female writers", who "have not yet gained legitimacy as producers of written works". She made the comment in a lecture ahead of the official prize ceremony on Saturday in Sweden.

Radio France Internationale

The unconscious suffering of the replacement child

Letters: Kristina Schellinski on Louise Glück and Annie Ernaux, and Jim Cosgrove on why overdoing the labelling of children as ‘replacements’ is offensive

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize an institution ‘for men’, says literature laureate Annie Ernaux

Awards are ‘bound to tradition’, says French writer, praised by academy for ‘the courage and clinical acuity of her work’

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French Nobel Laureate says men must change attitudes now

French author Annie Ernaux who won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, says men need to change their attitudes now, before women attain full equality with them

The Independent UK

The five best fiction books of 2022

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for his darkly comic Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

The Conversation

‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

The Guardian - UK

Nobelist Annie Ernaux draws hundreds to New York bookstore

Since Annie Ernaux won the Nobel literature prize last week, the French author’s books have gained enough new admirers that many titles are out of stock on Amazon

The Independent UK

Four Nobels and counting: Fitzcarraldo, the little publisher that could

With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off

The Guardian - UK

Factbox-Winners of 2022 Nobel prizes

Following is a list of the Nobel prize winners in 2022:

Reuters

Nobel literature laureate supports call for action against presidential projects

French author Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize last week, signed an open letter on Sunday supporting calls for a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron.

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French Nobel literature winner, others urge protests against Macron as inflation bites

A group of French intellectuals including Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux on Sunday urged people to join protests planned by the left for next week, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to help the poor cope with high prices while some companies make windfall profits.

The Guardian - UK

In Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize we see the public value of our intimate histories

This year’s winner shows the merit of the memoir form and marks a turning point for the literature prize

The Hindu

The last days of Roger Federer, but more fascinating

Geoff Dyer shares details of his life that, taken by themselves are commonplace, even banal

The Guardian - US

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Annie Ernaux, French feminist who uses language as 'a knife', wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 6. The 82-year-old writer, whose sociological autofiction and memoir is influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu, is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since the founding of the awards in 1901. Ernaux…

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 8 October 2022

On Thursday, 37 people were massacred in rural Thailand. 22 were children under the age of five. The current orthodoxy is to place the victims in the centre of the frame. Today, we think it important to reverse it.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Annie Ernaux: a vintage Nobel winner

Editorial: One of France’s finest writers has joined an all too select bunch of female laureates. And about time too

The Conversation

Nobel prize in literature: Annie Ernaux and writing from experience

The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in literature at the age of 82. Of the 119 awarded, Ernaux is only the 18th woman Nobel laureate in literature and the first French woman to have won the prize.

France 24

Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize celebrates a uniquely resonant voice in French literature

Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, in recognition of the “courage and clinical acuity” with which she has mined her personal experiences as a woman of working-class background to explore life in France since World War II.

The Guardian - UK

‘We are made of words’: the radically intimate writing of Annie Ernaux

She offers us her own life, her own pain, without shame – and gives voice to the silences of women. For this the Nobel prizewinner deserves to be celebrated

Evening Standard

Literature Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s best quotes from her 50 years of writing

The French author has finally laid claim to the Nobel Prize for Literature — and boy does she deserve it

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