Literature
Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011 is awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, transluscent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”.



The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008 awarded Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".