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Third Nobel Prize for France |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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The Nobel Prize in literature for 2008 has been awarded to the French author Jean-Marie Le Clézio.
They cited Le Clézio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." Le Clézio, 68, received much attention with his first novel 'The Interrogation' in 1963 and made the breakthrough as a novelist with 'Desert' in 1980, for which he was rewarded a prize from the French Academy. 'Desert' contains magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert, in contrast with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants, the Swedish Academy said in the statement.
Le Clézio was born in 1940, the son a French woman and a British surgeon. The Swedish Academy has already rewarded French Professors Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi this year for their identification of the Aids virus.
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