Le Clezio wins 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. 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."

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