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French writer wins '08 Nobel Prize in Literature after leak

The lit crowd was scandalized last week, when the Nobel Foundation's permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, made disparaging remarks about the insularity of the American writing tradition. On Thursday, French-born author Jean-Marie Gustave (JMG) Le Clézio took the prestigious prize, and, as it turns out, Engdahl's rejection of U.S. literature wasn't the only scandal that would surround this year's Nobel Prize season....  read more