{"product_id":"i-will-write-to-avenge-my-people-the-nobel-lecture","title":"I Will Write To Avenge My People : The Nobel Lecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I will write to avenge my people.'\u003c\/em\u003e It 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 defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eErnaux'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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annie Ernaux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268800639233,"sku":"9781804270707","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-12-11T171931.562.png?v=1702315194","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/i-will-write-to-avenge-my-people-the-nobel-lecture","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}