French writer Annie Ernaux is humbled by this year’s award of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She feels “gratitude” to receive the award 65 years following the late French writer Albert Camus, the 82-year-old author said in her acceptance speech in Stockholm last night. The author of works like “The Stranger” received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
“Finding myself here, 65 years later, leaves me with a deep sense of wonder and gratitude,” Annie Ernaux told the 2,000 guests gathered at Stockholm City Hall. The award for her work obliges her “to even higher standards in the search for (…) reality and truth,” said Ernaux.
Along with the Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, Physics – including the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger –, Chemistry and Economics, also announced in October, Ernaux received her prize from King Carl XVI of Sweden at the traditional ceremony. presented to Gustaf.
