Europe 1 with AFP 1:11 p.m., October 6, 2022, modified at 1:12 p.m., October 6, 2022

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to French novelist Annie Ernaux, the Swedish Academy announced.

The 82-year-old writer is rewarded for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory", explained the Nobel jury.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to French novelist Annie Ernaux, the Swedish Academy announced.

The 82-year-old writer is rewarded for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory", explained the Nobel jury.

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