When they tried to contact Annie Erno tell her that she won prize Nobel Prize in Literature 2022She didn’t answer the call. She worked, she heard his ringing all morning, and we all knew it before her. Erno, 82, was a former feminist activist and wrote that she has always adhered to this credo, from personal to political. She was awarded “for the courage and clinical insight with which she brought to light the roots, repressions, and collective limits of personal memory.” Her books convey the “liberating power” of writing that the author has always believed in.
Erno comes from a family of humble origins. She was born in Lillebonne in Normandy in 1940 and her first book Les armoires videos, empty cabinets 1974. There is already a stylistic code for her: internal monologues tracing her life as a 70s woman growing up in a Norman countryside.. Ten years later he arrivedto La Place, Place, a portrait of her father that wins her first literary awards. Erno’s books are not just novels or just autobiographies, they mix history and sociology and tell about experiences that become universal. Stories of women like her mother, which the author tells in Woman 1988 was written from the pain of loss. At 200 he comes L’Evenman (Event), which crystallizes Erno’s success and whose film adaptation won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. He does not hesitate to talk about his experience with clandestine abortion, lived in 1963 in a world different from today, but only partially.
After success L’Evenman, Erno stops teaching high school and writes Les Annees (Years)released in 2008: reflections beginning with paintings and photographs that trace a kind of “collective autobiography” and win her the European Witch Prize. Erno could identify gender and social differences, always drawing from his private and intimate experiences., from the banal to the universal. He had “a desire to break down literary and social hierarchies by similarly writing about subjects deemed unworthy of the literary language, such as supermarkets, commuter trains, and others more noble, such as the mechanisms of memory, the sense of time.” .
Source: Elle