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LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's announcement from The Swedish Academy featured French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature for a lifetime of successful works.

The committee announced Le Clezio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." Le Clezio is one of 105 persons since 1901 to have received this award.

As one of France's best-known contemporary writers, he has published nearly 30 novels, essays and short stories. Le Clezio is the author of Onitsha (Nebraska, 1997) and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (Nebraska, 2003), published by University of Nebraska Press.

Nice-born Le Clezio has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel Le Proces-Verbal at the age of 23. Over the last three decades his works have been translated in many languages including Swedish, German, and English.

The University of Nebraska Press has a long standing dedication to making available the best literature from around the world. With nearly 200 translated titles currently in print from 5 different languages, UNP is one of the largest, most active American publishers of translated works.

About the University of Nebraska Press: Founded in 1941, the University of Nebraska Press (UNP) is a nonprofit scholarly and general interest press that publishes 160 new and reprint titles annually under the Nebraska and Bison Books imprints respectively, along with 25 journals. As the largest and most diversified university press between Chicago and California, with nearly 3,000 books in print, the University of Nebraska Press is best known for publishing works in Indigenous Studies, Western American History, literary translation, and sports history. A distinctive member of the University of Nebraska community, UNP supports the missions of research, teaching, and service. In addition, UNP's sustained commitment to publications on the peoples, culture, and heritage of Nebraska reflects decades of service to its home state.

Source: University of Nebraska Press

CONTACT: Acacia Lemke, Publicist, University of Nebraska Press,
+1-402-472-5938, mpress@unl.edu

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