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Nobel laureate Le Clezio receives Swedish literature prize
2008-10-26
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Nobel-winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio picked up another award on Saturday in Sweden for his work drawn from his vast world travels, jury members said. Le Clezio accepted the Stig Dagerman award, which includes a diploma and a cheque for 50,000 kronor (5,000 euros, 6,300 dollars), during a ceremony in the village of Alvkarleby in northern Sweden, jury member Anton Soderhall told AFP. "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio fills pages with the most beautiful combinations of words, drawn from the recognition of the unjust and unjustifiable existence of the weak and excluded," the jury said. The prize had been announced in June. Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek also won the Nobel and the Stig Dagerman award in the same year in 2004. In announcing the Nobel prize for Le Clezio earlier this month, the Swedish Academy called the 68-year-old an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation."
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