New York celebrates Annie Erno, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Cairo – the middle gate Tuesday 11 October 2022, 02:37 pm
New York celebrated, on Monday, the French novelist Annie Ernault, who won the “Nobel Prize for Literature” last week. City Festival.
Literary creativity was the subject of an hour-long discussion between the American novelist Kate Zamperino and the French writer of feminist and left-leaning orientations, i.e. “discovering the roots, distance and collective limitations of personal memory” in her works belonging mostly to the category of autobiography, according to “AFP”.».
Ernault was greeted with standing applause from at least 300 people, most of them women, during the conference held at Villa Albertine in New York, which includes the cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States, including a library..
Annie Ernault is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“Literature has been my strength since my childhood (…) and I know that reading and books are part of my life,” said Annie Ernault, 82, in a speech she gave in French and translated into English. Through books first, I dreamed of my life.”
New York newspapers and elite magazines such as “The New York Times” and “The New Yorker” devoted extensive coverage since Thursday to the famous Erno’s achievement, which is the subject of study in American intellectual and academic circles.
documentary film
Annie’s work provided an accurate portrayal of the writer’s feelings, whose development coincided with the transformations of French society since the period after the Second World War. In about 20 stories, the writer deals with the impact of class domination and love, which are of course themes of her life path as a woman who suffered the consequences of her popular origins.
This week, Erno continues her visit to New York, which is considered one of the most prominent culturally and economically among American cities, and she will participate with her son David Erno Brio in the screening, which is being held within the 60th New York Film Festival, of their family documentary film “The Super-8 Years.”
On Wednesday, she will have a stop at the Barnard College of the Arts, for women, at Columbia University in New York.