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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Wins Nobel Prize

Early post today as the news comes in on the Nobel Prize in Literature winner for this year. And the prize goes to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. [via Nobelprize.org] I’m sure congratulations coming from this place won’t mean very much, but all the same, congrats, sir.

I must admit that I don’t actually know his work at all. He hasn’t been very vigorously translated as far as I know, though I guess that will certainly change now. Wiki tells me that:

In 1994 a survey conducted by the French literary magazine Lire showed that 13% of the readers considered him to be the greatest living French language writer.

[via Wikipedia]

From what I gather, his early work is more experimental and tormented, and (based on that alone) I’m rather intrigued. In any case, I’m sure we’ll see mass paperbacks coming out pretty soon so I’ll make it a point to have a go at his work.

In the meantime, maybe someone can drop a comment and tell me more about him. Would appreciate it very much.

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