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Media Contact: Susan McKinsey October 9, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner Has UNM, Albuquerque Ties A former University of New Mexico Visiting Professor and “infrequent” resident of Albuquerque has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio is honored with the coveted prize for a body of work characterized by “poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy” and which focused on the environment, especially the desert. Le Clezio was a visiting professor of Modern and Classical Languages at UNM in 1977-78 and 1984-85. He was also a visiting professor in Foreign Languages and Literatures at UNM in 1992-93 when he held the PNM Endowed Chair. Foreign Languages and Literatures Professor Walter Putnam, who has known Le Clezio for more than 15 years, says the globe-trotting novelist has spent long periods of time in Albuquerque over the past 30 years and finds it conducive to his writing. Le Clezio’s work includes adventurous novels, essays and children’s books. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. ###
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