I Will Write to Avenge My People – WINNER of the 2022 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE The Nobel Lecture

I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture by Annie Ernaux presents the speech delivered by the French author on receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 — a powerful account of her literary mission and the social and personal forces that drove her to write. Ernaux speaks about her origins in the working class of Normandy, her ambition to write about the world she came from, and her conviction that literature can be a form of social justice — a way of making visible the lives of those who are not usually considered worthy of art. Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, this is a brief but essential document — a statement of artistic purpose from one of the most important writers of our time, and an argument for the social importance of literature that is worth reading by anyone who cares about what books are for.