Annie Ernaux, activist for inclusive writing, defends the use of “iel”. In an interview with the women's magazine "Marie Claire", the first French Nobel Prize winner in literature discusses the practice of inclusive writing and criticizes the French Academy.
Ernaux is a proclaimed feminist, not very sensitive to literary ceremonies. The Nobel is “an institution for men” which is manifested, according to her, “by this taste for a tradition, in the costumes”