Nobel Prize for Literature

Zhang:
The Swedish Academy awards the prestigious $1.4 million prize for literature to a French writer. It's the first time a French writer has won the Nobel literature prize since 1985.
STORY:
A buzz of excitement fills the Swedish Academy in Stockholm as an audience
waits to hear who has won the 2008 Nobel prize for literature.

It falls to the permanent secretary of the academy, Horace Engdahl to make
the announcement.

[Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy]:
"The Nobel prize in literature for 2008 is awarded to the
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, author of new departures, poetic
adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the
reigning civilisation".

Le Clezio is the author of more than 30 works and has been writing since
the age of seven or eight.

Born in 1940 he first found fame in 1963 with his first novel Proces Verbal
which won a prize.

He has since written a variety of novels, essays and short fiction.

[Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy]:
"Because he is a great writer of variety who has gone through
many different stages in his development as a writer and has come to include
other civilizations, other modes of thought, other modes of living than the
Western in his writing. Because he is a great prose writer, both as a kind of
lyrical prose writer and as a narrator."

The award marked the first time a French writer has won the Nobel
literature prize since 1985.

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What about Gao Xingjian? He was French, was he not?!