The Nobel Prize for Literature is being awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a 68-year-old French-born author whose life and writings are marked by his nomadic spirit. He began to write at age 11 but came to the public’s eye when he wrote Desert at age 24. Reuters, Nobel site
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News story, GenevaLunch, 9 October 2008.
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