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Annie Ernaux welcomed me into her home in Cergy, France, last November, a little over three weeks after she was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, to speak about the letters she exchanges with her readers. What follows is the latest in a series of conversations I have had with the author of, most notably, Passion simple (1991; Simple Passion, 1993), L’événement (2000; Happening, 2001), Les Années (2008; The Years, 2017), and Mémoire de fille (2016; A Girl’s Story, 2020).
