French author Annie Ernaux who won this year's Nobel Prize for literature, said Tuesday that men need to change their attitudes now, before women attain full equality with them.
"Because if men do not become aware of their body, their way of life, their way of behaving and what motivates them, no real liberation for women will happen," she told a press conference ahead of the Nobel Prizes award ceremony on Saturday.
Ernaux won the award for blending fiction and autobiography in books that delve into her own experiences as a working-class woman exploring life in France since the 1940s. She said she was "old enough to have been an activist in the 1970s for freedom in France, contraception and abortion." In her books, Ernaux has probed deeply personal experiences and feelings -- love, sex, abortion, shame -- within a society split by gender and class divisions. She has written more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicling events in her life and the lives of those around her. Her work paints uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents.
"I am actually the first woman in France to receive the Nobel" literature prize, she said. "There is a kind of distrust toward a woman who gets the Nobel but also a woman who writes."
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