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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (274190)	10/13/2008 11:41:23 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793887

Same attitude prevails in literature. >>The Swedish Academy Thursday awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The English-speaking world congratulated him by saying, "Jean-Marie who?" Unless they read French and live near a French-language bookstore, Canadians are unlikely to have an informed answer to that question. Nobel or no, English translations of Le Clézio's books are difficult to find on English Canadian bookshelves. The Academy's permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, recently accused Americans of suffering from an "ignorance" of world literature. nationalpost.com