Le Mai du Livre of the Hautes-Pyrénées Education League remembers the participation of Annie Ernaux in 2001. They salute the Nobel Prize for Literature which distinguishes the writer.
“Let us remember the presence of Annie Ernaux at the Mai du Livre 2001. An hour and a half devoted to objective writing, without judgment, close to
facts told without emphasis. The words of the intimate took on a universal scope. The Compagnie de Tréteaux had set up in Tarbes and Pau,
“La place”, a major work.”
And René Trusses underlined that “the author, when the prize was announced, reacted with the elegance that we know for him: “It’s a very great honor… but also a great responsibility that I’m given, it that is to say, to bear witness to a form of fairness, of justice in relation to the world”.
The 82-year-old writer is rewarded for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory”, explained the Nobel jury.
She becomes the 17th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the 16th French winner since the founding of the famous awards in 1901.
