The French writer Annie Ernaux (82) will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022. This was announced by the Nobel Committee on Thursday in Stockholm. This year’s prize is endowed with 10 million crowns (920,000 euros). Annie Ernaux received the award “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, alienations and collective limitations of personal memory,” said the Academy’s permanent secretary, Mats Malm, at the award announcement. You could not reach them by phone, said Malm.
A year ago, the Swedish Academy surprised large sections of the interested public when they Abdulrazak Gurnah chose an author unknown to many. Even then, Haruki Murakami and Michel Houellebecq were considered contenders for the most important literary prize in the world, and British bookmakers have them in their betting slips this year as well. Since the assassination of Salman Rushdie is also the author of the “Satanic Verses” repeatedly mentioned as a candidate.