French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature for work that lights up cloudy corners of memory, family and society. She is just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates （文学奖得主） and is the first French literature laureate since Patrick Modiano in 2014.

Having spent over 5 decades as a writer, the 82-year-old winner has published more than 20 books to her name. Much of her material came out of her experiences being raised in a working-class family in the Normandy region of northwest France.

Ernaux once worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Two books by other French writers inspired her to be a writer：The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu. The former led her to write about feminism （女权主义）, and the latter raised her awareness of the huge gap between her and the environment she grew up in.

Besides her reading influences, her"upbringing and experiences navigating adolescence and adulthood"also inspire many of her works. For example, the book Shame explores the theme of childhood trauma （创伤） while A Girl's Story follows a young woman's coming of age in the 1950s. Ernaux has used the term"an ethnologist （人类学家） of herself"to describe herself rather than a writer of fiction. Her more than 20 autobiographical books, most of which are very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her. They present uncompromising portraits of love, relationships, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents, exploring deeply personal experiences and feelings within a changing web of social and class relationships.

Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Ernaux is"an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths. "

"She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her abortion, her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so on. I mean, really hard experiences, "he said after the award announcement in Stockholm. "And she gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving. "

 An idol is someone who we respect or love. However, unlike many of my classmates, my idol is not a film star, a famous writer or a sportsman. He is neither a world leader nor an important person from history. My idol is my dad. 

 Most people believe that a man should go out and work. However, when I was only a five-year-old boy, I was seriously ill and needed attention all the time. My mother and father both worked and my grandparents lived far away. This was a big problem. My dad knew how much my mum loved her job, so he stopped working to stay at home and look after me. Many men in this situation would want their wives to stay with the child, but my dad always thinks about others before himself. This made me start to respect him. 

 My dad later took a job and worked at night. He chose the job so that he would only be out of the house when I was sleeping. Since then, my dad has helped and supported me in everything I do. I remember when I was learning to ride a bike. My dad ran behind me and held the back of the bicycle so that I would not fall. I felt so safe because I knew he was near. I did not notice when he stopped holding me. Soon, I was able to ride by myself. 

 My family is not rich, and we do not own a big house or an expensive car. My dad has showed me that something is more important than money. My dad gives me his time. Although he now works hard every day and is often very busy, he always makes time to stay with me. He helps me with my homework, and plays games with me at weekends. We make and fly our own kites, go for walks in the countryside, and even cook together. He taught me that I can achieve anything if I really work hard on it. 

 My dad is my idol because he showed me the most important things in life.