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Nobel prize for literature goes to Annie Ernaux

Newly minted: Ernaux’s prize comes with 10 million Swedish kronor (£800,000).

Is it nonsense to have “winners” in the arts? Yesterday, French novelist Annie Ernaux won literature’s highest honour. But some believe that prizes go against the very nature of art.

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