2022-10-05 22:00:00
An essential figure in contemporary French literature for nearly fifty years, the writer Annie Ernaux has just been awarded the very prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature. Author of a committed and resolutely feminist work, she herself describes her work as located between literature, sociology and history.
The delegation for women’s rights welcomes the choice of the Nobel Prize jury to reward a novelist whose writings, often autobiographical, deal with the question of the status of women but also with major social issues.
Considered his masterpiece, Years, published in 2008, retraces the stages of her life as a woman through the prism of collective memory. His novel The eventpublished in 2000 and brought to the screen in 2021 by director Audrey Diwan, in which she tells the story of her abortion long before the legalization of abortion, is welcomed as a major work on the affirmation of the right and the freedom of women to dispose of their bodies.
For Annick Billon, president of the women’s rights delegation: “Annie Ernaux has produced a work apart in contemporary French literature. Between autobiography and sociology, she has made the fight for social justice and the fight once morest injustices once morest women the red thread of her writing..”
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The delegation for women’s rights is responsible for informing the Senate of the policy followed by the government with regard to its consequences on women’s rights and on equal opportunities between men and women, and ensures, in this area , law enforcement monitoring. It can also be seized on a bill or a proposal of law. The delegation is chaired by Annick Billon (Centrist Union – Vendée). |
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