Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022, announced October 6, 2022. Annie Ernaux, “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Annie Ernaux: born 1940, Lillebonne, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).