France’s ‘Occurring’ Novelist Annie Ernaux Wins Nobel Prize in Literature – Deadline

French novelist Annie Ernaux, whose novel Occurring was the inspiration for Audrey Diwan’s 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner of the identical identify, has gained the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The 82-year-old author is understood for her physique of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of girls and social change in France from the Nineteen Sixties onwards.

Highlights of her literary profession span her 1974 debut work Cleaned Out (Les Armoires Vides), A Man’s Place (1984), A Lady’s Story (1987) and her 2008 memoir The Years.

Quite a few her novels have been efficiently tailored to the massive display screen, topped by Diwan’s Occurring, which was tailored from Ernaux’s 2019 novella. Diwan, a novelist herself, consulted with Ernaux as she wrote the screenplay adaptation.

The highly effective drama is predicated on Ernaux’s experiences when she fell pregnant as a scholar within the early Nineteen Sixties when abortions have been unlawful in France.

Different options based mostly on Ernaux’s work embody Danielle Arbid’s 2020 erotic drama Ardour Easy. Laetitia Dosch stars as a lecturer who turns into embroiled in a passionate affair with a Russian diplomat, performed by star ballerina Sergei Polunin, who then disappears from her life.

Extra not too long ago Ernaux made her directorial debut with this yr’s Cannes Administrators Fortnight documentary The Tremendous 8 Years, by which she explored Seventies France via previous household movies, taking co-director credit with son David Ernaux-Briot.

The Nobel Basis stated in a brief assertion that Ernaux had been awarded the Nobel Prize “for the braveness and medical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of non-public reminiscence.”

Earlier winners of the prize embody Kazuo Ishiguro (2017), Bob Dylan (2016), Alice Munro (2013) and Mario Vargas Llosa (2010).