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October 9 at 5:01 am
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"The Swedish Academy describes him as "an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy."
It goes on to call him "an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." British author Doris Lessing won last year's prize.
Le Clezio's breakthrough as a novelist came in 1980 with Desert, a work the Swedish academy praised for its "magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert."" - Thomas Brox Røst
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Must admit I have never heard of him. - Thomas Brox Røst
who? - Paulo Nuin