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French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2008.

He has already won Prix Théophraste Renaudot (1963), Prix Larbaud (1972), Grand Prix Jean Giono (1997), Prix Prince de Monaco (1998) and Stig Dagermanpriset (2008). His novel Désert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from l’Académie française in 1980.

His first novel was Le procès-verbal (The Interrogation) in 1963. He has since written a raft of ecologically-themed novels including Terra amata; Le livre des fuites (The Book of Flights); La guerre (War); and Les géants (The Giants). Among Le Clézio’s most recent works are Ourania (2005); Raga: approche du continent invisible (2006); and Ballaciner (2007). A new work, Ritournelle de la faim, has just been published. Le Clézio has also written several books for young people.

Tomorrow is National Poetry Day. I suggest you all stay at home and read Wallace Stevens.

If you do happen to venture out into the mean streets tomorrow and are anywhere near Manchester then you should know that Clarity or Death!, a new collection of poems by Geoffrey Hill-expert Jeffrey Wainwright (author of the excellent and very useful introduction to poetry Poetry: the Basics and the very fine Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill), is being launched, Thursday 9th October at 6.30pm, in Lecture Theatre 7, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University. (The event is free, introduced by our pal Michael Schmidt, but for more information please email: j.draper@mmu.ac.uk.)

Yesterday, Mark Wood's incomparable wood s lot announced that it is eight years old. Congratulations Mark!

I have my own little announcement too: the first incarnation of ReadySteadyBook went live in October 2003. We are five!

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