Who is Annie Ernaux? 2022 Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature

[@vladamaric9439]

Annie Ernaux was in my hometown Belgrade in Serbia, 20 years ago, to promote her novels and she likes to read books from our author who died at age 54,Danilo Kiš(he was also candidate for Nobel Prize and he lived in Paris till his death) We knew here that Annie is a strong candidate for the prize long time ago.

[@ARVINDKUMAR-tk6wi]

Superb video! And timely! Very meaningful! I appreciate the labour you put in for collecting the material for videos for fiction beast. You are doing a yeoman’s job by creating literary interest in the minds of people. Thank you!

[@forzapound3482]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 you made me laugh for real thank you, I bet that you never read a single book of that institutional fake talent...

[@Fiction_Beast]

So nice of you

[@markspano3468]

I’m almost finished with The Years. She is quite remarkable. So good to discover such a talented artist.

[@giulianademedici691]

Thank you so much Your videos always give us a deep sight on the author and inspire us to see further

[@supramentalmanifestation]

1000 Thanks, Matt. Your videos are always inspiring.

[@sesh7357]

Thank you so much for posting this important video

[@Reza090]

Thanks. The books about the famous paintings and artists that you placed on the table at one point were quite interesting. Reviewing great artists and their paintings/sculptures would be great too.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Good suggestion but it’s a whole different skill to analyze visual art

[@phchoucri1]

Très bon travail de votre part ! Merci à vous.

[@MrUndersolo]

I've read a few of the books since she's won the prize. I'm very impressed with her ability to dredge so much from her experience into her work.

[@wrlsenglish1785]

very informative thanks alot for your collective fore you put in this clip.

[@ganesankalimuthu7122]

Thank you Fiction B...for useful informations

[@VickiNikolaidis]

Thank you! I learned much.

[@JustinFisher777]

She reminds me a bit of Virginia Woolf. A road which leads back to Proust.

[@rameshbhole]

Thanks!

[@buddymac3993]

Wow! What a prolific and multi faceted writer who stays devoted to her beliefs!! Truly deserving of this Nobel prize!!!🇨🇦

[@maryseokley6061]

Courageous... woman, representing us all🦋🕊️👁️

[@JustinFisher777]

The parts of Proust I have most trouble with are those long boring parties and balls he attends. Something something social something or other. How does one get through that inanity? How does that kind of writing compare to Ernauds kind? Perhaps Proust saw himself as something apart, passing through them. And Ernaud would see herself as inseparable. Faulkner wrote with Proust in his veins. He made the history of the South part of the memory in the background. In some ways like how Proust wrote about the history of the nobles at Balbec, various Brabants.

[@milesknightestrada3286]

At this stage, they'll hand it off to almost anybody.

[@madinaurinova751]

thank you so much for the video. Very informative))

[@mr1234567899111]

A most deserving awardee...

[@JustinFisher777]

The point about Tolstoy is interesting. I remember that epilogue at the end of war and peace and how this book that everybody references has this ultimate dim philosophical view which everybody, at least in the west would have a tantrum over. And yet. And yet. The current strange circling back of the individual identity into the realm of group essentialism. And perhaps Ernaux signaling it. Though I haven't read enough of her to know.

[@animamagna3077]

In the past, when you'd find out that the Nobel prize went to a laureate whose works you read and sometimes heavily, it was recognition. Now you're discovering a new author (whoever age) when she's gotten the prize and you find it on the news. Feel the difference.

[@DjCyberio]

She’s already very well known in France

[@ganesankalimuthu7122]

@@DjCyberio Thank you for more information

[@mainahgruau6631]

She's really well known lol... Her books are on school curriculums

[@behemoth5344]

@@mainahgruau6631 i think the meaning of Mahatma's comment is that in the past even the hoi polloi used to read, to quote but three examples, Kipling, Shaw, Hemingway, while now we're too busy with TikTok and Netflix to know any of the hottest writers. Madame Ernaux may be really well known in France as Signor Fo is famous in Italy but I wouldn't say they are internationally acknowledged names. Maybe literature is less relevant than it used to be. Maybe the Nobel prize is less relevant than it used to be. At any rate, I'ma give this broad a chance and thank the Swedes for the smorgasbord of authors they've allowed me to get to know along the years.

[@richardwestwood8212]

I feel the difference yeah

[@sparshhardik]

well summarised. thanks!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cappy2282]

Nowadays the Nobel Prizes are given for political reasons and have very little to do with acknowledging greatness. I don't wanna say this woman deserves the prize or not (I don't know anything about her) but she seems ok from what you're saying. She may have actually deserved it. God bless her 🙏 P.s Obama got the Nobel peace prize yrs ago and that was the end of me taking the awards seriously 😂

[@BigHenFor]

Then you don't understand the power of the symbolic. Although Obama's name was on it, it was really an award to the United States for having evolved enough beyond its own history with racism and slavery, to have a black president. It was the Nobel Committee trying to be creative within the boundaries set up by Nobel's trust, and to make the Nobel Prize relevant in the socio-political domain to more people. Most people go through life with the Nobel Prize have only a peripheral influence on their lives, so not even people take it that seriously, in the sense they want people to. They just get on with their daily lives. Only if one is in a domain where such prestige is seen important, one can quite happily exist knowing nothing about Nobel Prize winners, as many people do. I'm here for the curiosity, and to support Fiction Beast.

[@cappy2282]

@@BigHenFor lol I appreciate your "psuedo intellectual" argument and I'm well aware of the power of symbolism....but (president or not) Obama is not that symbol. Nothing "peaceful" about the "drone striker in Chief" and putting his name on the award because of the color of his skin is even more of a disgrace (that's actually the opposite of what America stands for and no American should except an award with that pretext 😂) 1) The man made race relations worse with divisive identity politics and rarely (if ever) mentioned American progress 2) America evolved beyond it's own history 50+yrs ago" B) I understand the awards mean nothing to most people but they should at least try to keep some semblance of decency....for historical purposes

[@prasoonjha1816]

I think Nobel Peace Prize has lost its credibility but the other Nobel prizes are fine.

[@guneygul4303]

Thank you 🌹

[@erickgarcia9377]

Could you make a video on The Penal Colony by Kafka? Its recently been one of my favorite short stories and i would love to hear your thoughts

[@Fiction_Beast]

good suggestion.

[@sumiksisar6400]

what is the name of annie ernauxs Nobel winning biographical book??

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

That was fantastic! I also like Simone Bouviea over Sartre. She must of been a great writer to have her name in the same sentence as Proust. Funny is that when Jim Morrison died, the snobs in France didn’t want him in the same cemetery as Proust. I think this is funny because Proust was way wilder than Morrison could’ve ever been.

[@francinesicard464]

Wilder maybe but boring as hell and Jim Morrison wasn't! In the last 50 years, I have tried several times to read "Du côté de chez Swan", the first volume of "La Recherche du Temps perdu" and never got further than the first chapter. Still on the shelf!

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

@@francinesicard464 there’s something you and Sartre had in common. Proust wasn’t his cup of tea either. 😀

[@mageetu]

@@francinesicard464 Might be your loss.

[@DrSylva22]

How can I find Annie’s Email???

[@paddy654]

Excellent review as usual, you almost oblige me to keep buying and reading books. Thanks for maintaining my book addiction. In the same line I would ask you to include also booker price winners. I am about to start with latest by the Sri Lankan author.❤

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks!

[@slm8025]

Strange how an empty shell of a HUMAN, she should feel so strongly about worry about her "responsibility".

[@charlieintheclouds]

she looks like a mixture of Meryl Streep and JK Rowling

[@wajailyas4282]

I have never heard of her, however, she must possess the credentials therefore, this prize s awarded to her

[@nickpeitchev7763]

I'll check her out but I'm seriously doubtful that she's better than Murakami. Another year of the Don being snubbed :(((

[@dabangify]

Thanks

[@solnassant1291]

I'm French and a huge fan of Proust (the goat). I've read her too and she's nice but in nooooo way does she (or anyone bar Tolstoi maybe) compare to Proust

[@Philover]

where does Proust say that?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Which one?

[@Philover]

@@Fiction_Beast you get what you want by the time you stop wanting what you wanted or something like that- you mention this in the video

[@Fiction_Beast]

It's not a direct quote. It's a conclusion you get from reading his novel.

[@Philover]

@@Fiction_Beast which one?

[@divinepiccolo9469]

thanks

[@AA-mj4sn]

"The Nobel Prize is given to french author Annie Ernaux." People in France : "Who?"

[@marielebars7233]

This is not true. She is well known in France, even if she is not appreciated by all, due to her very special style.

[@AA-mj4sn]

​@@marielebars7233 I garante you that she's really not that famous, for the majority of the population at least. There was a lot of people who asked that question on internet when this came out.

[@pinkyshandilya652]

Here due to fear of exam..lol

[@ektamehra8724]

Ugc net?

[@latikaaaaaa]

😉

[@marekkrajewski9662]

Never heard of her.

[@sharontheodore8216]

Excellent synopsis enough to make me avoid buying her wokish work. Many thanks.

[@LearnThaiRapidMethod]

I also am equivocal about her and her works. She’s a rabid - and rather ignorant, uninformed - anti-Semite, supports BDS and doesn’t understand what Apartheid is. I looked at one of her works and it seemed dull and rather emotionless.

[@richardwestwood8212]

She was awarded the stupid Nobel prize because she follows the agenda of "cultural politics", feminism, women's health issues and stuff. Literary merit alone will get you nowhere. Many Nobel laureates are now in the archives and nobody reads them, and some of the greatest literary geniuses were never awarded the stupid prize; like Tolstoy, Chekov, Borges, Proust, James Joyce, Malraux, Claudel, Nabokov, Rilke, etc. The number of the swedish laureates alone is higher than all the laureates of Asia combined!!! What does that mean??? Bob Dylan won the prize while in America alone Cormac McCarthy, William gaddis, Pynchon and Phillip Roth were still alive. Many writers around the world are now campaigning to end this stupid prize once for all.

[@michelez715]

The Nobel Prize for literature is not "stupid" just because you don't agree with some of the choices. Many awards are given to people whom others think are unworthy of it, from the Oscars to things like the Pulitzer, the Turner Prize for Art, and the Sterling Prize for Architecture. The aim of these awards is good, I don't see anything stupid about them, though I don't always agree with the choices.

[@richardwestwood8212]

@@michelez715 you mentioned the Oscars and this sums it up. What I'm saying is Nobel prize for literature is not given on the basis of literary merit, POLITICS is involved, the swedish royal academy itself says that.... If you don't know a thing about excellent literature what I wrote is not intended for you, all you did is prove my point. Stay with the commercial decadent culture of Hollywood, hip-hop and punk rock

[@ly_lu5923]

Better is read the works of a writer before go ahead with so precipitated conclusions.

[@kristine6996]

💐🇫🇷🌳🇫🇷💐 📝📝📝

[@manucao8594]

Houellebecq deserve it better

[@xing3010]

guess that will make me 2 nd comment XD

[@meditationmusic2499]

Ist comment

[@worldobserver3515]

A ridiculous choice.

[@worldobserver3515]

@Of the Refrain 6,000, so what? What a dumb response. I have never read one of her books, because I have never heard of her, which was the point of my comment. Another stupid choice by the Nobel committee. But, hey, she supports abortion, right? Very important when considering the literature prize.

[@e7m10]

Should've gone to Cormac McCarthy. He deserves one in his lifetime.