Annie Ernaux: Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature安妮·埃尔诺：诺贝尔文学奖获得者

陈丽霞

安妮·埃尔诺凭借着独特的视角用文字表达自我，展现其思考世界的方式，于2022年荣获诺贝尔文学奖，成为第一个获此殊荣的法国女作家。

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1 French author Annie Ernaux， who has mined her own biographyto explore life in France since the 1940s， was awarded the NobelPrize in Literature.

2 Ernauxs books explore deeply personal experiences and feelingswithin a changing web of social and class relationships. Much of hermaterial came out of her experiences being raised in a working?classfamily in the Normandy region of northwest France.

3 Ernaux， 82， was recognized for the courage of her writing. Anders Olsson， chairman ofthe Nobel literature committee， said Ernaux is an extremely honest writer who is not afraidto confront the hard truths. She writes about things that no one else writes about.

4 Ernaux is just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates（获奖者）and is the first French literature laureate since Patrick Modiano in 2014. Most of her booksare very short， and record events in her life and the lives of those around her. Her workwas often written in plain language， aiming for a very objective view of the events sheis describing.

5 Ernaux worked as a teacher before becoming a full?time writer. Her first book wasCleaned Out in 1974. Two more autobiographical novels followed—Do What They Say or Else and The Frozen Woman—before she moved to more autobiographical books.

6 The book that made her name， La Place， was published in 1983 and is about herrelationship with her father. Her most critically acclaimed book is The Years， published in2008， which described herself and wider French society from the end of World War Ⅱ tothe 21st century. Unlike her previous books， in The Years， Ernaux wrote in the third person.The book received numerous awards and honors， and Olsson said it has been called thefirst collective autobiography. A Girls Story， from 2016， follows a young womans coming ofage in the 1950s.

7 The Nobel literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on Europeanand North American writers， as well as too male?dominated.“We try first of all to broadenthe scope of the Nobel Prize， but our focus must be on literary quality，”Olsson said.

Reading Check

Detail

1. What do Annie Ernauxs works mainly focus on？

A. Her own living experiences.

B. The deep exploration of life.

C. Social and class relationships.

D. Peoples different lives in France.

Detail

2. What can we know about Annie？

A. She cares about nothing in her life.

B. She only prefers to write short stories.

C. She is a French Nobel literature laureate.

D. She never uses formal language to write.

Detail

3. Which book makes Annie famous？

A. Cleaned Out.

B. La Place.

C. The Years.

D. A Girls Story.

Inference

4. Where can we probably read the text？

A. In a textbook.

B. In a book review.

C. In a personal diary.

D. In a popular magazine.

Language Study

Ⅰ. Discover the useful structure in the text

Her work was often written in plain language， aiming for a very objective view of the events she is describing. 她的作品通常用通俗易懂的語言写，旨在客观地描述事件。

【点石成金】本句中，aiming for a very objective view of the events she is describing为现在分词短语作伴随状语；she is describing为修饰the events的定语从句，省略了关系代词that或which。

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks with the proper phrases.

1. I have some old photographs that have______________ through the family.

2. When I was walking on the street， I______________ one of my friends.

3. I heard that he had written a new book， but it hasnt______________up till now.

4. No one knew how it______________ and everyone felt very worried.

5. Theres a big concert today and youre most welcome to______________ .

6. In order to promote the products， she______________ a new idea at the meeting.