5 books penned by French author Annie Ernaux who won 2022 Nobel Prize in literature
A Man's Place
The author won France's Prix Renaudot for her 1983 novel 'A Man's Place', which deals with her conflicted feelings about transitioning from working class to bourgeois life. She called herself "a class defector" in the novel and also described the chasm that grew between her and her parents after she entered a world of university-educated intellectuals.
A Frozen Woman
Ernaux's third book 'A Frozen Woman' analysed her life through the prism of gender. She looked back at her journey and spoke about her transformation from a young girl full of dreams into an adult frozen in place by patriarchal control and societal demands. The book also dealt with the topic of her disintegrating marriage which eventually led up to divorce.
Cleaned Out
'Cleaned Out' was Ernaux's first novel, which was published in 1974. It recounted the abortion she underwent a decade ago when she was still a student. The lightly fictionalised book opened with a young woman sitting alone in her student dorm in Paris, feeling humiliated over a pregnancy that could destroy her chances of escaping a peasant background.
The Years
The 2008 novel 'The Years' is considered a masterpiece by many. It got the author immense international recognition because of a hugely successful English translation. The author even got nominated for the International Booker Prize for this book.
The book touched on many topics, including the postwar generation in France, sexual liberation, protests and pop culture of the second half of the 20th century.
A Girl's Story
In her book 'A Girl's Story', Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, when she went on her first summer camp away from home and encountered a sexual predator.
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