Annie Ernaux

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux’s attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile, t

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 | Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union ‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to w

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple P

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her t