{O/C} French author Annie Ernaux has nabbed this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
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82-year-old Ernaux was praised for her "courage and clinical acuity" of her pieces.
Pieces that illuminate murky corners of memory such as love, sex, abortion and shame amid an evolving web of social and class relationships.
They derived from her past -- being raised in a working-class family in the Normandy region.
The chairman of the Nobel literature committee also described Ernaux as "an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths."
Ernaux is the 17th female literature laureate and the first French literature awardee since Patrick Modiano in 2014.
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