Here's more on Nobel winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, whose work I confess I'm not at all familiar with.
* Guardian write-up
* N.Y. Times write-up
* BBC write-up
*'Will Le Clézio's Nobel prize cut America down to size? Have the judges of the Nobel prize for literature struck a blow against Coca-colonisation?'
* 'Nobel judges like their books experimental - to the cost of the classic American novelists'
* 'Nobel award restores French literary pride'
* NPR
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 8:17 PM
Labels: America, Coca-colonisation, France, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, literature, Nobel Prize
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