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Nobel prize in literature 2015

October 2022

  • Annie Ernaux / Ed Alcock / M.Y.O.P.<br>Annie Ernaux is a French author and professor of letters. Her literary work, which is mostly autobiographical, has close links with sociology. She is photographed at home, in Cergy, a western suburb of Paris. She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place (A Man's Place), an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin. Photo © Ed Alcock / M.Y.O.P. 27/3/2019 Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne le 1er septembre 1940 à Lillebonne (Seine-Maritime), est une femme de lettres française, professeure de lettres. Son œuvre littéraire, pour l'essentiel autobiographique, entretient des liens étroits avec la sociologie. Elle est photographiée chez elle, à Cergy, dans la banlieue ouest de Paris. En 1984, elle remporte le prix Renaudot pour son livre La Place, récit autobiographique qui se concentre sur sa relation avec son père et ses expériences dans une petite ville de France, et son processus ultérieur d'admission à l'âge adulte. Photo © Ed Alcock / M.Y.O.P. 27/3/2019

    In Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize we see the public value of our intimate histories

    Gaby Wood
    This year’s winner shows the merit of the memoir form and marks a turning point for the literature prize

July 2017

  • Power and insight … Svetlana Alexievich

    Saturday interview
    Svetlana Alexievich: ‘After communism we thought everything would be fine. But people don’t understand freedom’

    The Nobel prize-winning author talks about the pressures of life in the Putin era, as her bestselling book on Russian women’s wartime heroism is republished

January 2017

  • Svetlana Alexievich.

    Russian PEN denies Svetlana Alexievich was ever a member – but documents refute this

    Writers’ group says Nobel laureate cannot quit over treatment of Sergey Parkhomenko because she never joined, prompting the writer to release proof

December 2016

  • Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe, Bend, Oregon

    2016 in review
    Hits and misses: indie publishers pick their books of 2016

    Small and independent houses share the books they enjoyed and envied this year

June 2016

  • Svetlana Alexievich and Masha Gessen in conversation at the New York Public Library, June 13, 2016.

    Svetlana Alexievich on Orlando: 'There is not really a place you can run to'

    In New York, the Nobel prize-winning Belarusian writer also spoke about chronicling politics and suffering – and why she’s turning her attention to love

April 2016

  • The ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster at the Mitino cemetery in Moscow.

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich review – witnesses speak

  • Svetlana Alexievich

    A life in ...
    Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills’

December 2015

  • Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich: 'Russia chose to be strong over worthy'

    The Belarusian journalist said in her Nobel lecture that former Soviet countries were ‘again living in an era of power’, and recounted her time reporting the Chernobyl disaster from the radiation zone

October 2015

  • Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich<br>epaselect epa04971752 Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich arrives to a press conference in Berlin, Germany, 10 October 2015. Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on 08 October 2015. EPA/KAY NIETFELD

    New East network
    Belarus bookshop braves the state to publish Nobel winner's work

  • 140x84 trailpic for Nobel prize winner for economics Angus Deaton offers his views on refugees crisis video

    Nobel prize winner in economics Angus Deaton on the refugee crisis – video

  • Opening a window on the world … Svetlana Alexievich on Nobel day

    Books blog
    Andrei Sannikov: 'A Nobel for Svetlana Alexievich is an award for Belarus'

  • Claire Armitstead

    Svetlana Alexievich deserves her place alongside Pinter and Gordimer

    Claire Armitstead

  • Books blog
    Svetlana Alexievich: 'Stalin and the Gulag are not history'

  • Books blog
    Svetlana Alexievich builds individual voices into a mighty chorus

  • Nobel prize in literature winner Svetlana Alexievich – in pictures

  • Everything you need to know about Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel prize in literature

  • Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel literature prize – video

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