2008 Nobel Prize in Literature

2008 Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
Date
  • 9 October 2008 (2008-10-09) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2008
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 1940), better known with his pen name J. M. G. Le Clézio, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."[1] He became the 14th French-language author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature after Claude Simon in 1985 and was followed later by Patrick Modiano in 2014.[2]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 May 2021.