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09/03/2025

Even literature laureates can find a blank page daunting. Annie Ernaux often wonders how to start a novel, but finds inspiration in life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class.

“Where to begin? I have asked myself this question dozens of times, gazing at a blank page,” she explained in her Nobel Prize lecture.

“As if I needed to find the one, the only sentence that would give me entry into the writing of the book and remove all doubts in one fell swoop – a sort of key.”

“…To find that sentence, I don’t have to look very far. It instantly appears. In all its clarity and violence. Lapidary. Irrefutable.”

Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.

Watch her Nobel Prize lecture to learn more about her approach to writing: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/ernaux/lecture/