STOCKHOLM: French author Annie Ernaux has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature for fearlessly combining her experiences as a working-class woman with autobiographical fiction.

The award winner was announced by the Swedish Academy. The Nobel committee said Anne believed in the liberating power of writing.

Her work is beyond comparison and is pure literature written in simple language, the committee opined.

In more than 20 books published over five decades, Ernaux has presented deeply personal experiences and emotions—including love—within a society divided by gender and class divisions.

French writer Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvette in Normandy. Their parents owned a grocery store and cafe there.

Annie's writings focus on inequalities based on gender, language and class. Writing is definitely a political act. Nobel laureate Ani believes.

Since 1901, 114 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded. The award has not been given seven times. During the period 1901-2021, 118 individuals were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 16 of them are women.

A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system.

Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger won the physics prize on Tuesday for work showing that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.

The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Monday.