 Vancouver Sun | Ideas & Trends Yet Once More, a Laurel Not Bestowed New York Times - By DAVID ORR LAST Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced that the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was the Frenchman Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, immediately disappointing every writer not named Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and prompting the ... Explorer of humanity wins Literature Nobel France's Le Clezio bags 2008 Nobel for literature |