Book news: And the Nobel goes to …
By Dave
October 9th, 2008 | Leave a comment
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio of France has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature, continuing a trend of the Nobel Academy awarding its top literary prize to European writers. (The New York Times reports: The last U.S. writer to win the prize was Toni Morrison in 1993.”)
The academy called Le Clezio an ”author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.” His 1980 breakthrough, Desert, is considered a masterpiece.
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