Anne Elnor (1940-) is a famous contemporary French woman writer. She was born in Lillebona, seine-maritime, and spent her childhood in Ivoto, a small town in Normandy. She started as a teacher in a middle school and later worked in a French distance education center. Elnor started writing from 1974 and has published about fifteen works so far. Her representative works include The Empty Wardrobe, Location, A Woman, Simple Passion, Shame, Event, Occupation and so on. Her creative path is long and arduous. After more than 20 years of thinking and deliberation, she has become one of the first-class contemporary French writers.

The Swedish Academy's acceptance speech said: "Her courage and acumen revealed the roots, obstacles and collective constraints of personal memory." In her works, Elnor consistently examines the life with great differences in gender, language and class from different angles.

In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Literature was officially announced on the evening of1October 6th 10, and Anne Elnor from France won the prize. The prize of the Nobel Prize is 6,543,800,000 Swedish kronor (about 6.42 million yuan).