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French author Annie Ernaux leaves her home in Cergy-Pontoise, outside Paris, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. 2022's Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. The 82-year-old was cited for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory," the Nobel committee said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

By David Keyton, Jill Lawless and Masha MacPherson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building in Stockholm, Sweden. Sara Danius, the first female head of the prestigious Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. She was 57. Her family told Swedish news agency TT that Danius passed away early Saturday following a long illness. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP, File )

First female head of Nobel’s literature award body has died

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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Group want Handke award revoked

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FILE - In this file photo dated May 22, 2018, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk after winning the Man Booker International prize 2018, for her book Flights. Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk was named Thursday Oct. 10, 2019, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for literature. (Matt Crossick/PA FILE via AP)

Nobel literature pick heartens liberal Poles in populist era

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Swedish Academy to announce 2 Nobel literature prizes in Oct

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault, center, is escorted from court after the first day of his appeal trial, in Stockholm. The man with ties to the Swedish Academy that awards the literature Nobel Prize has lost his appeal to have his rape conviction and a two-year prison sentence reversed and been convicted of a second rape. The Svea Court of Appeal on Monday Dec. 3, 2018, gave Jean-Claude Arnault 2.5 years in jail for raping the same woman twice seven years ago. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Man at center of Nobel Literature scandal loses rape appeal

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo from April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. The scandal-rocked Swedish Academy said on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that only half of those who choose the winners of next year's Nobel Literature prize will be members of the body. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Outsiders, academy members to pick Nobel Literature winners

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Another member quits body that awards Nobel literature prize

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault arrives at the district court for the start of court proceedings in Stockholm. Arnault, a French citizen who is a major cultural figure in Sweden, is at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that has tarnished the academy and forced it to take a year off in choosing who should get the prestigious literature prize. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Group tied to literature prize still under Nobel glare

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault at the district court in Stockholm on Monday Sept. 24, 2018, for hearings in his trial for alleged rape and sexual assault. Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden and the husband of Swedish Academy member Katarina Frostenson, is on trial accused for two counts of rape of a woman in 2011. (Janerik Henriksson / TT via AP)

Man at center of Nobel sex scandal remanded pending verdict

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Rape trial starts of man at center of Nobel scandal

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Ex members of Nobel literature body ‘no plans on returning’

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

3 members of Nobel literature prize body to return

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

The old Stock Exchange Building, home of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday May 3, 2018. For the first time since 1943, there's a notable risk that no Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)

Nobel literature prize will not be awarded this year

By Jan. M. Olsen - Associated Press

Text of the Swedish Academy statement on postponing award

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Academy director and acting permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Anders Olsson, speaks during an interview with TT News Agency, in Stockholm, Friday, May 4, 2018. The Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation. (Janerik Henriksson/TT News Agency via AP)

5 things to know about the Nobel Prize for literature

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FILE- In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. For the first time since 1943, there’s a notable chance that no Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded this year, it is revealed Monday April 30, 2018, as the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Literature winner, is embroiled in sex abuse and financial crimes scandals. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, FILE)

Will there be a Nobel in literature this year? Stay tuned

By JARI TANNER and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

7th member of Nobel Literature awarding body stepping down

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Postponement talk raised for Nobel Literature Prize

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Women wear high-necked blouses with a loosely tied bow at the neck as people gathered on Stortorget square outside the headquarters of the Swedish Academy, to demand all of its remaining members resign, in Stockholm, Thursday April 19, 2018. Thousands of protesters called Thursday for the resignation of the secretive board that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature after a sex-abuse scandal linked to the prestigious Swedish academy forced the ouster of its first-ever woman head and tarnished the reputation of the coveted prize. (Jonas Ekstromer / TT via AP)

Nobel body: ‘unacceptable behavior’ not widely known

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press