I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

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Annie Ernaux Alison L. Strayer

I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Nobel Lecture

Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer

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FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
17 October 2023

Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to 'shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed'; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.

By: Annie Ernaux
Translated by: Alison L. Strayer
Imprint: FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 125mm,
ISBN: 9781804270707
ISBN 10: 1804270709
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 17 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal, and longlisted for the Prix Albertine. Her translation of The Years was awarded the 2018 French-American Prize, shortlisted for the Man Booker International in 2019, and awarded the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, honouring both author and translator.

Reviews for I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

‘Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir’s role of chronicler to a generation.’ — Margaret Drabble, New Statesman ‘Her work attests to the ways in which an individual story is linked to shared histories and her documentation of personal oppression is part of a struggle for collective freedom.’ — Jessica Andrews, Elle UK