Annie Ernaux - New Statesman

What the Nobel Laureate teaches us about shame, confession and secrecy.

By Christiana Spens

The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

With clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Ernaux understands that writing honestly about her parents is a form of betrayal – but she does it anyway.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.

By Margaret Drabble