Simple Passion

Among the most influential and impactful writers in the world today, ANNIE ERNAUX was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man’s Place and both the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize and the Prix Formentor for her body of work. She was awarded the International Strega Prize, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Cleaned Out, Do What They Say or Else, A Frozen Woman, A Man’s Place, A Woman’s Story, Simple Passion, Exteriors, Shame, “I Remain in Darkness,” Happening, Things Seen, Getting Lost, The Possession, The Use of Photography (with Marc Marie), The Years, The Other Girl, L’Atelier Noir, Retour à Yvetot, Look at the Lights, My Love, Le Vrai Lieu: Entretiens, A Girl’s Story, L’Ecriture comme un couteau, Hôtel Casanova and Other Brief Texts, The Young Man, and I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture.