The 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux on Thursday October 6, 2022. The prestigious award given by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, comes with a gold medal and 10 Million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million).
The prize is from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.Last year’s literature prize went to Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
Ernaux was awarded the prize “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” The Nobel Prize judges said.