French novelist takes the Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
The French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2008.
According to the Swedish Academy, the prize is an "author of new beginnings, adventure poetic and sensual bliss, and an operator of humanity and well before the reigning civilization" (in free translation).
Le Clézio is the first French author to receive the award since Claude Simon, in 1985.
Although not a name of resonance among the general public in the world, Le Clézio is viewed in France as one of the greatest writers of the French language today.
At 68 years, the writer would have beaten highly rated names to get the prize, such as British American Philip Roth and Ian McEwan.
The winner of last year was the writer Doris Lessing, who was born in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia.
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