In the coming days, the Spanish publishing house Cabaret Voltaire will publish "Writing like a knife", an essay in which the French writer Annie Ernaux, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, addresses the fundamental keys to writing. The book, which will be available in Spanish bookstores on October 11, reconstructs, in the form of a dialogue, the complete conversations with the journalist and literature professor Frédéric-Yves Jeannet and also includes a new unpublished chapter, which is published for the first time. once in the entire world, and which updates the book until 2021. Under the title "L'écriture comme un couteau" the book was published, in its limited and original version, for the first time in France in 2011 "I import into literature something hard, heavy, even violent, linked to the conditions of life, to the language of a world that was mine until I was eighteen, a world of workers and peasants. Always something real. I have the impression that Writing is the best thing I can do, in my case, in my situation as a class turncoat, as a political act and as a gift," he says in those pages. For a year but without a fixed regularity, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet sent Ernaux a series of questions and reflections. In her responses, the author of "The Frozen Woman" and "The Years" gives an account of her writing praxis, describes her way of working and makes explicit the "reasons" of her texts. The edition presented by Cabaret Voltaire incorporates texts that expand and update this dialogue until 2021.