Oct 10 2008
Nobel Prize 2008
The French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins 2008 Nobel Prize , 10 million Swedish kronor, or about US$1.4 million. He’s very little known in the US, and the last American won the Literature award was Toni Morrison in 1993.
I don’t think anyone has the right to critique another culture or compare to it to his own. Europe has much longer history than US, of course it’s culture heritage is far richer than the young America. I would not mind to see the divergences of different culture and history, young and old. It is me who will decide which book to pick up, but I want plenty of books there for me to choose from. Beside, literary is an art, and is very subjective. If you have a list of 10 writers, it may have more creed to me than a single one, same goes with artists.
Two Americans shared the Chemistry with a Japanese, and an American Physicist shared its award with two Japanese .. .. the market is crazy at the moment. Buy baby buy?