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French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the French writer Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Alice McCrum, Programs Manager at the American Library in Paris, tells us more about Ernaux and her work.
Mats Malm, Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that French author Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Literature Prize "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." SOUNDBITE
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Annie Ernaux.
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The author of "Paradise" and "Desertion" is the third African writer in history to win the prestigious prize. We also bring you the latest from Ethiopia, as the UN chief hits back at the government over the expulsion of seven UN officials. Finally, our reporter in Montpellier, Nicolas Germain, tells us what to expect from the Africa-France summit that opens on Friday.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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