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."

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...

After Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was given the Nobel Prize for Literature a large number of english speaking readers began asking what else they might be missing out on, sales for Le Clezio’s book exploded on AbeBooks since most of his English translations were out of print. A stat that is thrown arround is that only

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.

A fascinating post by Chad Post at Three Percent on A Non-Deal at Frankfurt, as he describes Gallimard rights director Anne-Solange's approach to selling newly minted Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.