You Can't Read this Year's Nobel Prize Winner

His name is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He's almost entirely unknown and unavailable in the Anglosphere. Good luck finding any of his books on Amazon.

Except this one.

Is Mr. Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Nobel Committee, right in charging Americans with "insularity" and "ignorance" about world literature? Or has the Nobel Committee just continued to bend over backwards to exclude American writers (there have only been three in the last 52 years, with the last being Toni Morrison in 1993).


"Ain't never heared of no John-Mary Lay-Cleeezo, stranger..."