I will write to avenge my people

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Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer.

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‘I will write to avenge my people.’ It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to ‘shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed’; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux’s speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer’s commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.

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Weight 0.086 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.5 × 0.8 cm
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Paperback

Pages

40

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

844.914 (edition:23)

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General – Trade / Code: K