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Ernaux, who writes novels about daily life in France, is one of her country’s most acclaimed authors. Could she win the world’s most prestigious literary prize on Thursday?The acclaimed French author Annie Ernaux is favourite at the bookmakers to take this year’s Nobel prize for literature.Ernaux, whose chronicles of daily life in France have seen her acclaimed as one of the country’s greatest living writers, has been given odds of 8/1 by Ladbrokes to take the world’s most prestigious literary prize when it is announced on Thursday. The Nobel, which is worth 10m SEK (£1m), goes to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”, according to the will of Alfred Nobel. Contenders are nominated by experts from around the world, with the 18-strong panel of the Swedish Academy selecting the winner. Continue reading...