Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

In a recent interview, Annie Ernaux, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, said of her detractors, “They think I’m not legitimate. What disgusts them is that there are people who have ...

Every year, when the snow thaws and warmer weather heralds the arrival of spring, I begin a summer reading list. This year, war raged in Ukraine and the pandemic remained a concern as I reached for ...

The French author Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, collective restraints of personal memory.” ...

SR Kichenamourty on winning the Romain Rolland Book Prize for translating Ernaux’s Une Femme from the French into Tamil PREMIUM SR Kichenamourty who won the Romain Rolland award this year for ...

The sliding doors of a supermarket open into a dilemma: Though one may find comfort in the grocery store’s order and abundance, its high stakes can also provoke anxiety—after all, this is the place ...