Nobel laureate
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio — Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”
Prize motivation
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”
The Swedish Academy awarded Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
Other laureates of the 2000s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).