{"product_id":"i-will-write-to-avenge-my-people-the-nobel-lecture-9781644213612","title":"I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e«J'écrirai por venger ma race \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 defense of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on December 7, 2022. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes Annie Ernaux's Nobel lecture, her Nobel banquet speech, a congratulatory speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, and the Nobel opening address by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the board of the Nobel Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644213612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Annie Ernaux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42896167076021,"sku":"9781644213612","price":6.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2177cca1-8a5c-4447-b5da-718b15bab535.jpg?v=1686100922","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-will-write-to-avenge-my-people-the-nobel-lecture-9781644213612","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}