French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel prize for literature

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Write won accolade for "uncompromising" 50-year body of work exploring  "a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language and class".

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French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel said was an "uncompromising" 50-year body of work exploring "a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language and class", reports the BBC.