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Nobel Prize for Literature

October 6, 2022
By Erin Somers

French memoirist Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature. The committee writes she was awarded the prize “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

Seven Stories Press has been Ernaux’s longtime primary publisher in the US, with 12 of her books currently available. Ernaux is one of the seven authors for which the publisher was named (honoring the first seven authors who agreed to publish with Dan Simon when he founded the press). A representative tells PL that they plan to go back to press on several titles, but numbers haven’t been determined yet. They add that they still have recent titles in stock, including her latest, Getting Lost, which was published just two days ago.

Publisher Dan Simon writes, “Congratulations first of all to Annie Ernaux, who has stood up for herself as a woman, as someone who came from the French working class, unbowed, for decade after decade, and also congratulations to the Nobel Prize for Literature Committee, which here makes a brave choice by choosing someone who writes unabashedly about her sexual life, about women’s rights and her experience and sensibility as a woman—and for whom writing is life itself.”

Yale University Press has a new book by Ernaux, translated again by Alison L. Strayer, Look at the Lights, My Love, about the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, scheduled for fall 2023.

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