[ti:French Woman Wins Nobel Literature Prize]
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[00:01.96]French writer Annie Ernaux used her own experience
[00:06.36]to explore life in France since the 1940s.
[00:11.60]On Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced
[00:14.80]that she had won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
[00:20.32]It said she received the award
[00:22.60]for work that shines light on dark corners of memory,
[00:26.60]family and society.
[00:30.44]The Swedish Academy also said Ernaux, who is 82 years old,
[00:35.36]earned the prize for the way she writes
[00:38.44]about the complex nature of personal memory.
[00:43.08]She is the first French writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
[00:47.48]since Patrick Modiano in 2014.
[00:52.68]Ernaux started out writing creative stories, or fiction,
[00:56.44]based on her own life, but quickly moved
[00:59.56]from fiction to factual stories about her life.
[01:04.40]Anders Olsson is chair of the Nobel literature committee.
[01:08.76]He said Ernaux had said she was producing
[01:12.40]a scientific study of herself rather than writing fiction.
[01:18.24]She wrote more than 20 books.
[01:20.56]Most of them are very short.
[01:23.84]They record events in her life and the lives of those around her.
[01:30.00]They present uncompromising pictures of sexual encounters,
[01:35.52]abortion, illness and the death of her parents.
[01:41.16]Olsson said Ernaux's work was often "uncompromising
[01:45.52]and written in plain language, scraped clean."
[01:50.16]He told reporters that she has created
[01:53.12]something we can respect that lasts a long time.
[01:58.00]Ernaux describes the way she writes, her style, as "flat writing."
[02:04.60]She tries to tell the facts of the events she is describing.
[02:09.64]She does not include colorful description or strong emotions.
[02:15.04]Her book A Man's Place, about her relationship with her father,
[02:19.88]was the first to bring her fame.
[02:23.32]She wrote, "This neutral writing style comes to me naturally."
[02:28.92]Her 2000 novel Happening,
[02:31.68]tells about the result of illegal abortion.
[02:35.96]Her most highly praised book is The Years, published in 2008.
[02:42.40]She describes herself and French society
[02:45.72]from the end of World War II to the present day.
[02:50.60]Unlike in earlier books, in The Years,
[02:53.88]Ernaux writes about herself in the third person,
[02:57.32]calling her character "she" rather than "I".
[03:02.52]The book received many awards and honors.
[03:06.00]A Girl's Story, from 2016,
[03:09.84]follows a young woman's coming of age in the 1950s.
[03:15.24]Ernaux is the 17th woman
[03:17.44]among the 119 Nobel literature prize winners.
[03:23.20]Last year's winner, Tanzanian-born,
[03:26.08]British-based writer Abdulrazak Gurnah,
[03:29.84]was only the sixth Nobel literature prize winner born in Africa.
[03:35.96]There has long been criticism of the literature prize
[03:39.48]giving too much attention to European
[03:42.12]and North American writers and to men rather than women.
[03:48.12]The prizes to Gurnah in 2021
[03:51.08]and U.S. poet Louise Glück in 2020
[03:55.60]helped the literature prize move on from years of arguments
[03:59.84]and investigations into wrongdoing.
[04:03.76]The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday
[04:08.20]and the economics award on Monday.
[04:12.40]The prizes include a cash award of about $900,000.
[04:18.08]All the prizes, except the one for economics,
[04:21.52]were established by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel,
[04:25.76]who died in 1895.
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