Each reader has “his” or “his” Annie Ernaux.
Her favorite book, her venerated or adored side of herself.
Many French people have a special, emotional, sometimes fusional relationship with the long-time resident of Cergy (Val-d'Oise), who has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 82, eight years after Patrick Modiano, the last French winner.
Some will have tears in their eyes, others will laugh, dance, or who knows, raise their fists.
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