 French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is the distinguished winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is an elusive character, a traveller and an adventurer. I illustrated him as a wanderer. In his heart lives his Moroccan wife, yet he is no Orientalist. He is a free thinker with a creative imagination. He joins the ranks of 1988 Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and we wish the prizewinner all the best of luck and even more abundant success. parent page (16 - 22 October 2008, issue #918) |