French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced. Interviewed on Swedish television immediately after the announcement, Ernaux called it a "very great honour" and "a great responsibility". The Nobel Prize comes with a medal and a prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (about $911,400). Ernaux, whose name has circulated in Nobel speculation for several years, is the 17th woman to win the prestigious prize, out of 119 literature laureates since the first Nobel was awarded in 1901. The Nobel season continues on Friday with the highly anticipated Peace Prize, the only Nobel announced in Oslo.
