Nobel Prize 2022 For Literature Goes To French Author Annie Ernaux

Stockholm: French author Annie Ernaux has been conferred with this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

“The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” reads the tweet from Nobel’s official handle.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents.

Literature was the fourth prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will. A total of 114 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded since 1901. It was not awarded on seven occasions: in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday while the economics award on Monday.