Studied and translated for 30 years in the United States, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, Annie Ernaux, was honored in New York on Monday 10 October, being acclaimed at the French cultural center and welcomed with her son at the film festival of the city for their family documentary.
The French writer, a figure of feminism and a committed leftist, was crowned on 6 October by the Nobel Committee for “courage and clinical acumen“of his largely autobiographical work, conversed for an hour on literary creation, during a conference with the American writer Kate Zambreno.
At least 300 people, mostly women, gave her a standing ovation during the evening at the Villa Albertine in New York, on the prestigious 5th Avenue, along Central Park, which houses the cultural services and a bookshop of the French Embassy in the United States. .
“I have been absolutely nourished by literature since childhood. The farther I look, I know that reading, that books are part of my life. I dreamed of my life earlier with books”said Annie Ernaux, 82 years, whose comments in French were translated into English by an interpreter, in front of a conquered audience of French and English.
The writer is famous and studied in American intellectual and academic circles, and her Nobel Prize in Literature has been extensively covered by the 6 October from New York’s elite newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker.
Annie Ernaux’s work is considered an x-ray of a woman’s intimacy that has evolved with the upheavals of French society since the war. In about twenty stories, she unravels the weight of social classes and amorous passion, two themes that have marked her journey as a woman torn by working-class origins.
During an exchange with the public, Annie Ernaux was warmly thanked by a young woman for doing it “enter feminism“, in particular thanks to the reading of his autobiographical novel on abortion, The event (2000). “It’s wonderful for me, the carrier, because I don’t feel responsible for this effect my books have on the younger generations “replied, all smiles, the octogenarian author.
Annie Ernaux is on a visit to America’s cultural and economic megacity this week and also presented their family documentary on Monday evening with her son David Ernaux-Briot. The Super 8 yearsto the 60th New York Film Festival. The 12 In October she will be received at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York, a faculty of literature reserved for women.
