Feminist wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Feminist wins Nobel Prize in Literature


Six books by Annie Erno have been published in Russian in recent years

On October 6, in Stockholm, the name of the owner (or rather, the owner) of the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced. It was Annie Ernault, who received the prestigious award "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she exposes the roots, alienation and collective limitations of personal memory."

“This is great news. I buy and read all of Annie Erno's books, which are translated and published in Russian. For me personally, Erno is the number one writer in France. Nothing escapes her gaze. She writes about everything without fear or shame. She writes about women's issues, about what it's like to be a working-class writer. In her "Years" - the history of the experience of the French of the XX century. It is impossible not to note her brilliant language. Erno’s voice is quiet, but insinuating,” Oksana Vasyakina, a well-known writer, feminist, winner of the Lyceum and NOS awards, told MK.

It is known that six books by Erno have been published in Russia in recent years.

Annie was born on September 1, 1940 in Lillebonne (that is, she is the same age as Joseph Brodsky), spent her childhood in Normandy, then graduated from the University of Rouen and taught literature.

It is noteworthy that Arno was listed at number 4 in the lists of Nobel favorites compiled by bookmakers, although last year the gold medal with the profile of the inventor of dynamite went to the "dark horse" - Abdulrazak Gurna, a native of Tanzania, who creates works about the problems of the post-colonial world order.

It should be noted that in anticipation of the ceremony, the MK correspondent suggested that in 2022 the “colonial card” would be played and the winner would be either the Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiongo (although twice an African seemed completely unbelievable), or a native of Mumbai, Salman Rushdie. Together with our interlocutor, Russianist from India Sonu Saini, we came to the conclusion that by awarding Rushdie, the Europeans will be able to apologize to the Indians for all the troubles they have caused in the past.

The version of an expert on modern literature, Mikhail Wiesel, also seemed promising, who believed that the Nobel could be given to a Ukrainian-speaking poet - Sergei Zhadan or Yuri Andrukhovych. In the last seconds, like a flash of lightning, the thought arose: Stephen King would become a Nobel laureate! He is traditionally called among the favorites and also traditionally remains out of work. But politics often interferes in Nobel affairs, and the efforts of the master of horrors to support the authorities in Kyiv will be rewarded. However, expert and purely journalistic fortune-telling on coffee grounds turned out to be nothing more than smearing this very thick on a plate.


Ivan Volosyuk

MEANWHILE

Interestingly, last year, the media, based on the data of bookmakers, called Annie Erno the favorite among the candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But then the British writer, a native of the island of Zanzibar (thus, he is a fellow countryman of Freddie Mercury from the Queen group) Abdulrazak Gurna, the author of a dozen novels and a number of short stories, became the Nobel laureate in literature. He was awarded "for his uncompromising and compassionate insight into the consequences of colonialism and the fate of refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents."

And now it's time to "come true" forecasts. “In his work, Erno consistently and from different angles explores a life marked by strong differences in terms of gender, language and class. Her path to authorship was long and difficult,” the Nobel Committee website says.

From 1901 to 2021, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 114 times. As a rule, the literary Nobel Prize goes to one laureate, although history knows a few exceptions. So, in 1904 the prize was shared by the poet from Provence Frederic Mistral and the Spanish playwright José Echegaray y Eisagirre, in 1917 by the Danish authors Carl Adolf Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan, in 1966 by the Israeli Shmuel Agnon and the German poetess Nelly Sachs, and in 1974 - Eyvind Yunson and Harry Martinson from Sweden.

Published in the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" No. 28885 dated October 7, 2022

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Feminist Wins Nobel in Literature



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