Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 awarded to French author Annie Ernaux

Swedish Academy cites ‘the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory’

Annie Ernaux: the new Nobel laureate at her home in France in 2020. Photograph: Isabelle Eshraghi/New York Times
Annie Ernaux: the new Nobel laureate at her home in France in 2020. Photograph: Isabelle Eshraghi/New York Times