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Oct 6, 2022 · French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal...
- The Goncourt Prize
- The Renaudot Prize
- The Femina Prize
- The Grand Prize of The French Academy
- Interallié Award
- The Médicis Prize
- 2022 Winners
The jury then discusses the final four and votes on a winner, which is announced in early November. The announcement, made at the venerable Drouant restaurant in Paris, is a don’t-miss event that receives huge coverage in the French press. It is said that receiving the Goncourt Prize can make an author rich, and some books have gone on to sell over...
And A Man’s Place by recent Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, considered by some to be her finest work, also did not receive the Goncourt (though to be fair, it lost to Marguerite Duras’ masterful The Lover—it was a great year for female authors.)
The jury is still all-female but the Femina can go to both women and men and is awarded to a work of either prose or poetry. Notable winners include Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman inducted into the French Academy.
These guardians of the French language award a prize to the novel “that the Academy judges the best of the year.” They have a solid track record, with laureates like future Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano and beloved Little Prince author Antoine de St-Exupéry. And while members of the Academy tend to have rarified tastes, sometimes they pick a p...
This was created when a group of journalists was sitting around waiting for the Femina Prize to be announced. Bored, they decided to come up with their own prize and give it to a novel written by (no surprise) a journalist. The best-known winner is Michel Houellebecq, the bad boy of French literature, for his novel The Possibility of an Island.
The Medicis is awarded every year to an author “whose fame does not yet match his talent.” Alas, the prize rarely solves this problem and most winners remain little known.
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Oct 6, 2022 · STOCKHOLM/PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books...
Nov 7, 2023 · France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, was awarded Tuesday to former film director Jean-Baptiste Andrea for his novel Veiller sur elle ("Watch Over Her") set in Italy's dark fascist years....
Oct 6, 2022 · French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal...
Oct 6, 2022 · French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel said was an "uncompromising" 50-year body of work exploring "a life marked by great disparities regarding...
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Oct 6, 2022 · Of 119 people to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ernaux is only the 17th woman and the first French woman. She joins over a dozen French writers who have been honored with the award.
