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NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2008 APRIL 2010 * A LIFE IN ... JMG LE CLÉZIO: 'BEING EUROPEAN, I'M NOT SURE OF THE VALUE OF MY CULTURE, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IT'S DONE' The

2008 winner of the Nobel prize for literature talks to MAYA JAGGI DECEMBER 2008 * NICHOLAS LEZARD'S CHOICE TERRA AMATA * BOOKS BLOG COLONIALISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE PUBLISHING WORLD

* HAS THE NOBEL PRIZE LOST ITS GLITTER? THE OBSERVER PANEL: Last week's announcements of the Nobel Prize winners generated little excitement and some scorn * THE WEEK IN BOOKS THE WEEK

IN BOOKS An 'engagé' wins the Nobel, betting on the Booker, and Istanbul goes to Frankfurt * BOOKS BLOG JMG LE CLÉZIO: OVERDUE FOR RECOGNITION - AND TRANSLATION MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI:

The latest Nobel laureate is a genuinely brilliant author. But English readers are going to have to wait a while to find out why * JMG CLÉZIO: 'AN AUTHOR OF GLOBAL REACH' Claire

Armitstead, the Guardian literary editor, on Le Clézio's Nobel prize for literature * NOBEL AWARD RESTORES FRENCH LITERARY PRIDE * A FORMAL REJECTION Mark Lawson * A WRITING LIFE IN

PICTURES: NOBEL LAUREATE JEAN-MARIE LE CLÉZIO * BOOKS BLOG WILL LE CLÉZIO'S NOBEL PRIZE CUT AMERICA DOWN TO SIZE? * NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE GOES TO AUTHOR OF 'POETIC

ADVENTURE' * JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE LE CLÉZIO WINS NOBEL PRIZE * AN INSULAR VIEW OF THE NOBEL PRIZE Marco Roth * BOOKS BLOG THE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE: PLACE YOUR BETS * A PRIZE MISJUDGMENT

John Sutherland * BOOKS BLOG DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COUNTRY * A ONE-WORD RESPONSE TO ENGDAHL GILES FODEN: Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other

literatures * NO NOBEL PRIZES FOR AMERICAN WRITERS: THEY'RE TOO PAROCHIAL Permanent secretary of jury for literature prize angers US critics with tirade on nation's

'ignorance' * NOBEL PRIZE JUDGE SLAMS AMERICAN LITERATURE US literary world reacted to an extraordinary tirade against American writing by Horace Engdahl About 21 results for Nobel

prize for literature 2008