2008 Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was a surprise addition to the PEN World Voices line-up this morning. The author will join four other French authors in the festival. Le Clezio has produced 30 novels, and the Nobel judges called him an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." Here's...

Some background, via 3Quarks, on recent Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio from The Australian: Although the recipient of several prizes recognising his vast body of work -- more than 40 novels, essays, collections of short stories and translations -- Le Clezio has at times been disparaged as a naive and sentimental writer by the Parisian literati. Through his writing and relatively infre...

French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature today for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."

In 'Korea will soon win Nobel Prize' in The Korea Herald Yang Sung-jin reports that: "Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said he expects a Korean writer to win the prestigious literature award in the near future."

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio’s Nobel Prize lecture, In the Forest of Paradoxes, (also available as a pdf file) was released last night. It takes its title and starting point from a provocative passage from Stig Dagerman’s Essaer och texter: How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see...

The Nobel ceremonies are coming up shortly, with literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio scheduled to give his Nobel lecture -- titled: 'Dans la foret des paradoxes' -- on Sunday. Simon and Schuster have reprinted his debut, The Interrogation, in time -- but the UK publishers a way ahead in getting the backlist back into print.

Publishers Weekly has an update on how Le Clezio's doing in the U.S., post-Nobel. Happily, small presses that have hung with him are the beneficiaries thus far: Thus far, three small presses have benefitted from last month's news that French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the Nobel Prize in Literature. While David Godine, University of Nebraska Press and Curbstone Press all upped or rus...

The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to a little know author, Herta Muller. Ms. Muller joins the ranks of Nobel laureates - most recently the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio last year and the Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 - whose work, at the time of their announcements, anyway, was little known and little translated here. Only 5 of Ms. Muller's so...

Just in time for the Nobel ceremonies we get down to our first reviews of some Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio titles: his debut, The Interrogation and The Prospector.

Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio appeared in New York in conversation with Adam Gopnik at the 92nd St. Y last Friday, and several reports are now available.