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Nobel Prize for Literature - 2008


Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio

This year's Nobel prize was won by Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio. He joins many other French winners including, Gao Xingjian (2000), Claude Simon (1985) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1964 - although he ultimately declined to accept the prize).

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Previous Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature


2007 winner - Doris Lessing

The Fifth Child (Paladin Books)
by: Doris May Lessing

by: Doris May Lessing

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2006 winner - Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul: Memories of a City
by: Orhan Pamuk

by: Orhan Pamuk

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2005 winner - Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter: "The Caretaker", "Birthday Party", "The Homecoming" (Faber Critical Guides)
by: Bill Naismith

by: Bill Naismith

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2004 winner - Elfriede Jelinek

The Piano Teacher
by: Elfriede Jelinek

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by: Elfriede Jelinek

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2003 winner - John M. Coetzee

Disgrace
by: J.M. Coetzee

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by: J.M. Coetzee

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