In the press - Nobel Prize for Literature: Annie Ernaux, "woman of being"

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A woman is in the spotlight of this press review.

the French Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize for Literature 2022. "The Event" appears on the front page of

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, an obvious reference to one of the author's most famous works.

This is the 16th time that a Frenchman has received the prestigious award.

Annie Ernaux joins Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre or even Patrick Modiano, but this is a first for a French writer.

Annie Ernaux, "woman of being", writes 

Engaged on the political front, against social segregation and for women's rights, since her first book, she has always drawn on her own experience to discuss the status of women.

In 2000, she published "The Event", a clinical account of her clandestine abortion in the 1960s, recently adapted for film by Audrey Diwan.

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The interested party reacted as usual, in all modesty. “I heard the news when I was listening to the radio”.

She said she was "honored" and invested with a "very great responsibility".

But the most important thing for her is "not to change anything".

In France, the shortage of gasoline as to worry the authorities.

"Blow of pump", headlines

.

More than a thousand service stations are affected.

Consequence of a strike affecting 3 of the 5 refineries controlled by the giant TotalEnergies recalls

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Employees are demanding a 10% wage increase to offset the effects of inflation, after the company's record profits for 2022. Among the most affected regions are Hauts-de-France and Ile -of France.

The government does not speak of a shortage but of "temporary tensions".

It's all in the terminology.

Almost three years after Covid-19 emerged in China,

 retraces the story of the man who had tried to warn of the dangerousness of this new coronavirus.

Li Wenliang was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Hospital when he saw the first cases appear.

He tried to alert on the presence of a mysterious potentially fatal virus.

He died of a heart attack a few weeks after the first cases appeared.

At the time, the Chinese authorities forced him to shut up, refusing to recognize the urgency of the situation.

But three weeks later, the coronavirus had spread so quickly that Beijing had no choice but to acknowledge the existence of this new disease.

From pariah, China will have made a hero of Li Wenliang but it was already too late, for him as for the rest of the world.

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