October 9th 2008 – French writer Jean-Marie Le Clezio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, considered to be by some the greatest living French writer. The Swedish Academy says Le Clezio is an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation.” Among his better known works are “Onitsha” (1991) and “Wandering Star” (1992). He travelled the world and even lived with the Embera Indians of Panama for a time. That gave him an outsider’s view of the life people live in the cities of the West. He says, “‘If I had to venture into philosophy, I’d say I was a poor Rousseauist who hasn’t really figured it out.”
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