Thanks to Keith Taylor's email, I'm not aware of Jean-Marie Gustavo Le Clezio (apologies for the lack of accents, I am not skilled enough to figure out how to add them), and the fact that he's the first French author since Chinese-born Frenchman Gao Xingjian was honored in 2000 to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Certainly not an emerging writer, though one that I'm obviously woefully behind in my own reading of.
Is it me, or has the Nobel Prize lost some sparkle the last few years? When Gore won the Peace Prize that said it all for me. I mean, a Peace Prize for his environmental work? Sounds like just another good ol' boy network. So I probably won't check out this year's winner of the Lit Prize. The Nobel Prize, money, medal and all, feels weightless.
Posted by: Kevin Watson | October 09, 2008 at 10:26 AM
How can the Nobel committee continue to neglect Philip Roth?
Posted by: kyle | October 09, 2008 at 03:46 PM