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Published on Thursday, October 09, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
For those Americans - and there may not be many - seeking great foreign authors who have yet to be discovered in English, the Nobel Prize judges present a fresh candidate: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, this year's winner of the literature prize.
Le Clezio, 68, was cited by the Swedish academy Thursday as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." His works include "Terra Amata," "The Book of Flights" and "Desert," a 1980 novel the academy said "contains magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert contrasted with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants."
Speaking to reporters in Paris, Le Clezio said he was very honored and the news left him feeling "some kind of incredulity, and then some kind of awe, and then some kind of joy and mirth."
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