Le Clezio wins 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature

14 October 2008 Books+Publishing

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008. He is described by the Nobel committee as an ‘author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation'.Le Clézio first became known at 23 with the...