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Annie Ernaux
has received the Nobel
Prize for Literature
, the Swedish Academy has just announced in Stockholm.
The previous pools pointed to other writers such as the British Salman Rushdie, the Russian Liudmila Ulítskaya and the French Michel Houllebecq.
Other favorites were the Norwegians Jon Fosse, Karl Ove Knausgård and Dag Solstad, the Russian Vladimir Sorokin, the American Cormac McCarthy and the Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, among others.
The previous Nobel laureate was the Tanzanian
Abdulrazak Gurnah
, who in 2021 was the fifth writer from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, recognized for his work focused on post-colonialism.
In the 122-year history of the award, the Swedish Academy - which has exempted it on several occasions and on others has awarded more than one author - has distinguished 118 writers, only 16 of them women and more than 80% have been originating from Europe or North America, with a clear command of the English language (31 winners), ahead of French and German (14) and Spanish (11).
The recent death of the Spanish novelist Javier Marías had left the letters in Castilian without the name that had sounded the most in the previous pools in recent years to succeed Vargas Llosa, along with others such as Eduardo Mendoza or the Argentine César Aira.
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