This from AbeBooks' "A year in review":
" Unknown outside France, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature."
No hard feelings, but can it be? UNKNOWN OUTSIDE FRANCE? Most of Le Clézio's works are translated into Japanese and well received. And this for over forty years!
And don't imply he's ONLY a French writer... he's avowedly and factually FRANCO-MAURICIAN; so to call him a French writer is but halfway true.
In other languages, too, J.M.G. has been an imposing presence. And to my eyes he's one of the two most important writers, along with Gary Snyder, actively writing.
English-speaking (reading, rather) world, awake.
