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France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave LeClezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for hispoetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."
The Swedish Academy called Le Clezio, 68, an "author of newdepartures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of ahumanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
Le Clezio made his breakthrough as a novelist with "Desert,"in 1980,...
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