Nobel Prize 2022: On Thursday, French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize 2022 for literature. The Swedish Academy awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature to French author Annie Ernaux for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory.”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born UK-based writer whose work focuses on the effects of migration, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
The award was given to US poet Louise Gluck in 2020. The Nobel Literature Prize was postponed in 2018 due to sex abuse allegations against members of the Nobel Literature Committee.
On the other hand, Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday. The Nobel Prize committee stated that Svante Pääbo received the award “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
The 2022 #NobelPrize laureate in literature Annie Ernaux believes in the liberating force of writing. Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. pic.twitter.com/la80uMiSa8
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2022
On the other hand, Ernaux, 82, began writing autobiographical novels but eventually left them in favor of memoirs.
Her over 20 books, the majority of which are very short, chronicle events in her life as well as the lives of those around her. They paint uncompromising portraits of her sexual encounters, abortion, illness, and her parents’ deaths.
Meanwhile, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
On the other hand, The three were recognized for their work in ‘click chemistry,’ which involves molecules snapping together quickly and firmly without the need for a long, complicated process and a large number of unwanted byproducts. Their research has applications in medical science, including cancer treatment.
