Nobel Prize for Literature

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make the announcement. [Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy]: "The Nobel prize in literature for 2008 is awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation". Le Clezio is the author of more than 30 works and has been writing since the age of seven or eight. Born in 1940 he first found fame in 1963 with his first novel Proces ...