I Will Write To Avenge My People The Nobel Lecture Annie Ernaux by Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (translation) 9781644213612, 9781804270707, 1644213613, 1804270709 instant download after payment.

«J’écrirai por venger ma race»

It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defense of literature & of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on December 7, 2022.

To write of her own life, she asserts, is to “shatter the loneliness of experiences endured & repressed;” to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux’s speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, & of one writer’s commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys & its injustices.

Includes Annie Ernaux's Nobel lecture, her Nobel banquet speech, a congratulatory speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, & the Nobel opening address by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the board of the Nobel Foundation. 

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ANNIE ERNAUX is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place & the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. She received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, & the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. 

Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer & translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, & her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Literature & for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, & the Man Booker International Prize.