The Swedish Academy made the announcement on Thursday (October 6). In a statement about Annie Ernaux, the Swedish Academy said “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
Besides, Annie Ernaux also “examines the lives of victims of gender, language and class discrimination consistently from different angles. Her path to becoming a writer was long and difficult,” the statement further read.
Born on September 1, 1940, Annie Ernaux’s literature is mainly autobiographical – related to sociology. She is the 17th woman to win this award.
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian citizen, lives in the UK and mainly writes in English. Some of his famous novels include Paradise (1994), By the Sea (2001) and Desertion (2005).
American poet Louise Gluck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. According to the Swedish Academy, Gluck was awarded this prize due to her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
In 2019, Austrian writer Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize. He is accused of supporting the Balkan wars of Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.
In 2018, Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of a member of the Nobel Committee and a popular photographer, was charged with a sex scandal. Later, the court sentenced him to two years imprisonment for that incident. Apart from the sex scandal, he was also accused of leaking the name of the Nobel winners. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was postponed amid controversy.
The Royal Swedish Academy began taking extra precautions in 2019 due to the scandal. The structure of the Nobel Committee also changed. That year, along with the 2019 winners, the 2018 deferred winners were also announced. Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2018, the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature was called off for the first time based on a direct complaint against the Nobel Foundation. Earlier, no award was given in this category during World War II and World War I – due to war and conflict.
In 2017, Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2016, the Academy Award was given to American rock legend Bob Dylan.
Earlier, 15 women won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The late Toni Morrison is the only black woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Till Thursday, three Nobel Prizes have been announced. Three scientists from the United States and Denmark jointly received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (October 5). They are – Carolyn R. Bertozzi of the United States, Morten P. Meldal of Denmark, and Karl Barry Sharpless of the United States. They have been nominated for this award for their outstanding contribution to the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
On Tuesday (October 4), the Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly won by Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States, and Anton Zeilinger of Austria. They received the award in recognition of experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to medicine on Monday (October 3). The Swedish scientist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the extinct human genome and the evolution of mankind.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday (October 7). The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (Economics) will be announced on Monday (October 10).
Noted that in November 1895, Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize through his will with 94% of his total earnings (30 million Swedish kroner). With this huge amount of money, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace began.Economics was added to the list in 1968. Alfred Nobel died before the award was announced that year. After the approval of the legislature, the Nobel Foundation was formed as per his will. They are responsible for the overall supervision of the money left by Alfred Nobel and the overall management of the Nobel Prize. The responsibility for selecting the winners is shared between the Swedish Academy and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/
