Nobel Prize for Literature 2008
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to a French novelist and philosopher, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Born in 1940, he spent his early life in Nigeria and several years in the 1970’s living with the Embera-Wouaan tribe in Panama. He has published more than 36 books, that include short stories, novels, essays and translations on the subject of Native American mythology. In 1980 his novel Desert was the winner of the Grand Prix Paul Morand award. This is one of his best known publications set in the Sahara, it is one of few works that address the relationships between France and her former colonies.
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