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The Valve (Free subscription) | yesterday
<< | Saturday, October 11, 2008 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature: Jean-Marie Le ClézioPosted by on 10/11/08 at 06:04 AMSo, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, and across the anglophone world there are joyful, rooftop-to-rooftop cheers of ‘who?’ and ‘why have I never heard of him'’ Speaking for myself, I was sufficiently ashamed of my ignorance to at least rootle around...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Nobel literary committee yesterday infuriated the bookies, delighted the bookish and thumbed its nose, again, at the American book industry. The 2008 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Nobel prize for literature has been won by 68-year-old French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (pictured). The announcement is likely to enrage the American literary establishment who are…
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WHEN THE Swedish Academy announced it was giving the Nobel Prize in Literature to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio yesterday, the permanent secretary of the award committee said: "His works have a cosmopolitan character. Frenchman, yes, but moreso a traveller, a citizen of the world, a nomad."
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's announcement from The Swedish Academy featured French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel Prize wi...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's announcement
from The Swedish Academy featured French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le
Clezio as the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature for a lifetime of
successful works.
The committee announced Le Clezio as an "author of new departures,
poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and
below the reigning civilization."...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Profile: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for portrayal of the African American experience. Toni Morrison returns with a new novel and stays as essential as ever
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The Nobel Prize in Literature from an Alternative Universe . Some of these I agree with, some not. I do not, for instance, think that Bertolt Brecht deserved it more than Halldor Laxness. The latter is a greater writer than Brecht. I also think Kawabata is vastly better than Mishima. Wittgenstein was certainly a better philosopher than Bertrand Russell, but the prize isn't for philosophy. Russell...
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Just reward' Finns welcome Nobel Peace Prize for one of their own Author Le Clezio wins Nobel prize Distinguished French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio is awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. In Memoriam | Metin And: the Evliya...
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nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Americans seem a trifle miffed about the winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio: Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American literary culture "too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature" -- comments widely seen in the United States as evidence of the insularity...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
We’ve heard a lot lately about good writing – the Nobel Prize for literature announcement, the Giller shortlist – but the L.A. Times has a post about literary agent Nathan Bransford’s blog, in which Bransford asks his readers for the worst writing advice they have ever received. From the L.A. Times: It’s likely that many of [...]
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
photo credit: benfurneaux In case you didn’t hear yesterday, the Nobel Prize for Literature was announced: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. After the comments circulating last week, it’s no surprise that the winner is not an American. One of my readers, Cynthia, passed along a recommendation of where to start: Wandering Star, about two teenage [...]
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Cows and Graveyards (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Yesterday I posted about the drought of the United States in the Nobel Prize for Literature. The comment by Skates raises an interesting follow up: If we take Pynchon off the table, and we take Toni Morrison off the table (for already winning) - what is the most important literary work of the last twenty [...]
