literature's biggest prize. >> the nobel prize in literature for 2022 is awarded to the french author annie ernauxe announcement, ernaux, now 82 and living outside paris, came to new york. we spoke at the office of her longtime u.s. publisher, seven stories press, and i asked about mining the past, and a line that begins "the years," one of her best-known books -- "all the images," she writes, "will disappear." annie: i do think that in each of us, images disappear when we die. and perhaps that's what made me write, to think of this moment when all the images i have seen would disappear. this feeling of the loss of things. but i also think that the true reality of the world is forgetting. we forget a great deal, from a collective perspective. for instance, we're always surprised when war arises again, as we are seeing now. so it's more a question of forgetting than of memory. and to write is to fight forgetting. jeffrey: in some 23 volumes, 16 of them translated and published in english, she's written one woman's story, a woman who is both her and not her. she's been described as genre-defying, he