Nobel goes to Yankee (not)
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was just awarded to French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
The Academy, which decides the winner of the prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.4 million) prize, praised the 68-year-old for his adventurous novels, essays and children’s literature.
“His works have a cosmopolitan character. Frenchman, yes, but more so a traveller, a citizen of the world, a nomad,” Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told a news conference to announce the laureate.
Quillblog will cop to ignorance of Le Clezio’s oeuvre without too much shame: a quick Amazon search turns up only one volume in English, Prospector. (It’s listed as a 1994 Putnam title that’s not in stock.) But then, here in Canada we’re probably a little too close to that “insular and ignorant” American literary culture.
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