2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Annie Ernaux. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 6 October 2022.

The citation

The citation reads: "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".

The laureate

Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in Lillebonne, France.

Why it matters

The French writer draws on her own life and on the experience of social class in books such as The Years.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.