French writer Annie Ernault has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. This was reported by the Nobel Committee on Twitter (blocked in Russia).

The report states that Erno received the award “for courage and clinical accuracy in revealing the origins of alienation and the collective limitations of personal memory.”

The Nobel Prize website says.

Erno is known for his autobiographical novels. For example, in one of his best-known books, The Event (L’Événement), he talked about having an abortion in 1963, when abortion was illegal in France. Based on her book, a film directed by Audrey Divan, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year, was shot.

Erno’s first novel, Les armoires vides, was published in 1974. The last book Le jeune homme was published this year. Since 1974, Erno has published more than 20 books, six of which have been translated into Russian: “Activity”, “Woman”, “In Power”, “Memory of a Girl”, “Years” and “Ordinary Passion”. In Russia, Annie Erno’s work was popularized by the independent feminist publishing house No Kidding Press, which has already published five of her books.