And the Nobel Goes To...

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the French novelist and poet Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

Read the Nobel Committee’s announcement here.

Read the Nobel Committee’s biography of him here.

Read reports from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Bookseller.

Read commentary by John Sutherland, Sarah Lyall, Mark Lawson, Peter Stothard, Boyd Tonkin, John Lichfield, Lev Grossman, Michael Coffey, Adam McDowell, Chad W. Post, Maxim Jacubowski and Leon Neyfakh.

Read The Complete Review’s assessment of his books here.

Read extracts from his work here.

Read a L’Express interview with him, in French, here.

Read a France Diplomatie interview with him, in English, here.

Listen to a short Guardian podcast with Claire Armitstead here.

See the complete list of Nobel literature laureates here.

View the New York Times Nobel literature page here.

Read Ted Gioa’s list of Nobel literary laureates ‘from an alternative universe’ here.

See also:
Not every writer wants to win the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 2008