France’s Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature today for works characterized by “poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy.”
Le Clezio, 68, is the first French writer to win the prestigious award since Chinese-born Frenchman Gao Xingjian was honored in 2000.
The decision was in line with the Swedish Academy’s recent picks of European authors. Last year’s prize went to Doris Lessing of Britain.
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.”
Academy Permanent Secretary Horace Engdahl said he was a writer of great diversity. More...
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