Annie Ernaux: the Nobel Prize for Literature “dispersed my life like a bomb”

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In this new Culture program on France 24, Fatimata Wane interviews Annie Ernaux, one of the world’s greatest writers and the first Frenchwoman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. For decades she tirelessly wrote about sex, abortion and disease. Ernaux wrote about her life, writing his own: the girl, the teenager, the lover, the married, the divorced, the scandalous, the engaged.