Odisha News, Odisha Latest news, Odisha Daily - OrissaPOST
  • Home
  • Trending
  • State
  • Metro
  • National
  • International
  • Business
  • Feature
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • More..
    • Odisha Special
    • Editorial
    • Opinion
    • Careers
    • Sci-Tech
    • Timeout
    • Horoscope
    • Today’s Pic
  • Video
  • Epaper
  • News in Odia
  • Home
  • Trending
  • State
  • Metro
  • National
  • International
  • Business
  • Feature
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • More..
    • Odisha Special
    • Editorial
    • Opinion
    • Careers
    • Sci-Tech
    • Timeout
    • Horoscope
    • Today’s Pic
  • Video
  • Epaper
  • News in Odia
No Result
View All Result
OrissaPOST - Odisha Latest news, English Daily -
No Result
View All Result

Women’s Wordplay

Updated: October 10th, 2022, 07:30 IST
in Edit
0
Annie Ernaux (PC: westobserver.com)

Annie Ernaux (PC: westobserver.com)

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare on Linkedin

This year marks a watershed for the power of the pen wielded by women the world over. It is a triumph of women’s imaginative power to fathom the depths of reality and translate their realisations into words creating verbal magic. And the world’s best forums are recognising the feminine talent. For, the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2022, has gone to the French author Annie Ernaux, the first French woman to win it, only months after India’s woman novelist Geetanjali Shree won this year’s International Booker Prize. Coincidentally, a common thread binds the two women as they weave their tales using human memories.

Ernaux’s winning the Nobel Prize cannot come at a better time. She is one of the most powerful voices asserting women’s rights and she bags the greatest literary award of the world at a time when Far-right forces are alarmingly rising across the world, including Europe. Rightly has she diagnosed that women’s rights are curbed most ruthlessly under Far-right regimes. In fact, she is so disturbed by the rise of these forces in Europe – Italy and Sweden in particular – during the past few months that she remarked “the extreme Right in history has never been favourable to women.” Her own country was dangerously close to embracing the Far-right in the Presidential race recently.

Also Read

Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh

Acknowledge Failure

4 days ago
AAKAR PATEL

Politics of Philosophy

5 days ago

The 82-year-old Ernaux has been writing for the past 50 years from her deep convictions that one’s personal memories can form the raw material for novels and not merely for autobiographies. It means one’s personal experiences have the power to transcend the limited boundary of a single individual’s life and become valid for the whole human race. Once she said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes to social inequality. “And for this purpose she uses language as ‘a knife’, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination,” the Swedish Academy announcing the Nobel Prize for Literature said.

Her very first novel, “Les Armoires Vides” written in 1974, is born of this conviction. It deals with her own personal experience of abortion which was then illegal in France. It was an assertion of any woman’s right to do with her body as she pleases. It is remarkable that nearly half a century later the apex court in India recently pronounced a landmark verdict on an unmarried woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy as she thought it was the only way to stop her mental agony and tortured social life.

She took the decision as the man, who had promised to marry her, ditched her after she became pregnant. The woman’s plea had been rejected outright by the Delhi High Court which found the existing laws did not accord this right to unmarried women. But, the Supreme Court took a different view and granted her the right. However, the apex court’s verdict does not give this right to all unmarried women since it is specific to this case only.

It is not without reason that Ernaux recently declared: “Until my last breath I will fight for women’s right to choose whether they want to be a mother or not.”

Ernaux was born to a modest family of grocers from Normandy in northern France. This background has shaped her mind and enabled her to write in a frank, direct style about class. She tried hard to adopt the codes and habits of the French bourgeoisie while remaining firmly rooted to her working class origin. She uses various angles of vision and consistently examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class.

The Swedish Academy has made a brave choice of someone who writes unabashedly about her sexual life, women’s rights and her experience and sensibility as a woman. It is in the fitness of things that the Academy has termed her “a courageous woman” who has traversed a long path.

 

Tags: Annie ErnauxNobel Prize in LiteratureOP Editorial
ShareTweetSendShare
Suggest A Correction

Enter your email to get our daily news in your inbox.

 

OrissaPOST epaper Sunday POST OrissaPOST epaper

Click Here: Plastic Free Odisha

#MyPaperBagChallenge

Ipsita

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Anshuman Sahoo

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Pratyasharani Ghibela

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Archana Parida

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Priyasha Pradhan

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Arya Ayushman

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Ramakanta Sahoo

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Archit Mohapatra

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Praptimayee Biswal

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Surya Sidhant Rath

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Adyasha Priyadarsani Sendha

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Anup Mahapatra

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Chinmay Kumar Routray

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Nishikant Rout

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Kamana Singh

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Rajashree Manasa Mohanty

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Geetanjali Patro

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Smitarani Sahoo

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Pitabas Tripathy

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Pratik Kumar

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Diptiranjan Biswal

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Priyabrata Mohanty

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Jhili Jena

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Bijswajit Pradhan

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Jyotshna Mayee Pattnaik

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Pragyan Priyambada

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Narendra Kumar

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

D Rama Rao

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Manas Samanta

December 12, 2019
#MyPaperBagChallenge

Shreyanshu Bal

December 12, 2019

Archives

Editorial

Toll Sucks Life

Nitin Gadkari
July 9, 2025

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the...

Read more

Bloodline

BJP-Shiv Sena
July 8, 2025

The coming together of the Thackeray cousins – Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena...

Read more

Acknowledge Failure

Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh
July 7, 2025

Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh’s candid revelations about Operation Sindoor at a FICCI event ‘New...

Read more

Politics of Philosophy

AAKAR PATEL
July 6, 2025

The BJP’s constitution (Article 3) says, “Integral Humanism shall be the philosophy of the party.” The party’s membership form has...

Read more
  • Home
  • State
  • Metro
  • National
  • International
  • Business
  • Editorial
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
Developed By Ratna Technology

© 2024 All rights Reserved by OrissaPOST

  • News in Odia
  • Orissa POST Epaper
  • Video
  • Home
  • Trending
  • Metro
  • State
  • Odisha Special
  • National
  • International
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Horoscope
  • Careers
  • Feature
  • Today’s Pic
  • Opinion
  • Sci-Tech
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs

© 2024 All rights Reserved by OrissaPOST

    • News in Odia
    • Orissa POST Epaper
    • Video
    • Home
    • Trending
    • Metro
    • State
    • Odisha Special
    • National
    • International
    • Sports
    • Business
    • Editorial
    • Entertainment
    • Horoscope
    • Careers
    • Feature
    • Today’s Pic
    • Opinion
    • Sci-Tech
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Jobs

    © 2024 All rights Reserved by OrissaPOST