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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

Date set for Nobel Prize in literature

This week, the literary community has been talking about one Horace Engdahl, the heretofore unknown permanent secretary of the Nobel Foundation. On the heels of releasing the announcement date for the prize in literature—Oct. 9—Engdahl  gave a controversial interview, telling the AP that "Europe still is the center of the literary world... not the United States."...  read more