As promised, the Nobel judges continue to think most highly of European writers, naming Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, 68, the winner of the 2008 prize for literature. Le Clezio is “regarded by some French readers as one of the country’s greatest living writers,” the NYT notes, and his work ranges from novels to children’s books and essays. 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.” They also like he has ”stood out as an ecologically engaged” writer, an “orientation that is accentuated with […]