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New York: New York celebrated on Monday evening the French writer Anne Ernault, who last week won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Literary creativity was the subject of a one-hour discussion between American writer Kate Zamperino and French leftist feminist and writer, “discovering the roots, distance and collective limits of personal memory” in her mostly autobiographical works.
French writer Anne Ernault, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature last week
warm applause
Ernault received the applause of at least 300 people, most of them women, during the conference held at “Villa Albertine” in New York, which includes the cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States, including a library .
“Literature has been a staple for me since my childhood (…) and I know that reading and books are part of my life. Through books I dreamed of my life first,” said Annie Ernault, 82. , in a speech in French and translated into English.
New York newspapers and elite magazines such as “The New York Times” and “The New Yorker” have devoted extensive coverage since Thursday to Erno’s famous achievement, which is the subject of study in American intellectual and academic circles.
Transformations of the French company
Ernault’s works provided an accurate portrayal of the writer’s feelings, the development of which coincided with the transformations of French society since the Second World War. In about 20 stories, the writer addresses the impact of class domination and love, which are obviously the themes of her life path as a woman who has suffered the consequences of her popular origins.
This week Erno continues his visit to New York, considered one of America’s most important cultural and economic cities, and on Monday evening he will participate with his son David Erno Brio at the screening of their family documentary “The Super-8 Years”, which held as part of the 60th New York Film Festival.
On Wednesday she will make a stop at Barnard College of the Arts, for women, at Columbia University in New York.
