Nobel Prize-Winner Annie Ernaux Signs Open Letter In Support Of Amber Heard Alongside French Feminists & Cinema Figures
deadline.comNobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux has signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard, decrying “the vilification” and “ongoing online harassment” of the actress.
Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2022 for her work charting the lives of women in France from the 1960s onwards, including abortion drama Happening, which formed the basis for Audrey Diwan’s 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner of the same name.
She is among a group of 68 French feminists and cultural figures to have signed the online letter in an initiative coinciding with the first anniversary of the actress’s defeat last June in a highly-mediatized defamation trial brought by ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Further signatories included actresses Ariane Labed (Flux Gourmet, The Souvenir) and Zita Hanrot (Angry Annie, The Hookup Plan) as well as actress-director Aïssa Maïga (Above Water, The Girl Who Harnessed The Wind, Cherchez La Femme), screenwriter Caroline Deruas Peano (The Plough) and cinematographer Balthazar Lab (The Pack).
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