France's Le Clezio wins Nobel Literature Prize
October 9, 2008 STOCKHOLM (AFP) - French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced.
It hailed him as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation.” Le Clezio, 68, whose vast body of work covers Latin America and Africa, produced his first novel in 1963, “Le proces-verbal”, which won the presigious Renaudot prize.
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