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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.
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a "boundary-pushing" event.
In tonight's edition: World leaders pledge more support for the continent, a continent which has contributed the least to climate change but bears the brunt of rising temperatures and environmental disasters. And France's oldest and most prestigious literary prize is won by a Sub-Saharan African writer for the first time. Senegal's Mohamed Mbougar Sarr impressed the judges with his novel 'The most secret memory of man'.