What is Annie Ernaux hiding?
What the Nobel Laureate teaches us about shame, confession and secrecy.
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Annie Ernaux’s acts of revenge
The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
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Why Annie Ernaux deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature
With clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.
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Annie Ernaux and the brutal art of memoir
Ernaux understands that writing honestly about her parents is a form of betrayal – but she does it anyway.
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Annie Ernaux: the objective, unseen reporter of her times
Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
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