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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
France and Mauritius
b. 1940
 
 
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