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Transhumant and environmentalist, writer fascinated by native American culture, Le Clezio represents the ambiguities of the global world and the Scripture as a metaphor of the journey to other lives. It should be noted that the resides in United States – in Paris, on a scale between Canada and South Korea. He then offered a press conference at the Paris headquarters of the publishing house Gallimard, in which in French, English and Spanish, serene and prankster – reviewed his travels the world, recalled his love for American culture, particularly by the Mexican past, and defined its idea of literature. Writing is listening to the noise of the world, the decision of the Swedish Academy in favour of a European reinforced caused controversy since its perpetual Secretary, Horace Engdahl, said that United States remains isolated and does not participate in the big dialogue of literature. Yesterday, Engdahl lowered the tone: Le Clezio It is a cosmopolitan, a nomad.
It belongs to various cultures and spent long periods of his life in other places, not in Europe. Not you can tell is like a typical European writer, he said. However, Le Clezio is the seventh European distinguished between the last ten winners. The last French winner was Claude Simon in 1985. Gao Xingjian, won it in 2000 Chinese naturalized French, but who writes in mandarin. The literary production of the brand-new Nobel includes novels, essays and books for children. Eleven works were translated into Spanish, including storage in quarantine, the goldfish Mondo and other stories and the African, in addition to Etoile Errante (2000) or Revolutions (2003), novel of autobiographical nature in which discovers his childhood, the history of his family, his constant nomadism, its birth in Nice, time spent in Islands Mauricios, in England and his arrival in New Mexico.