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Reuters - French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globetrotting novelist hailed as a child of all continents, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.

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Only two weeks after Swedish Academy secretary Horace Engdahl chastised American literature as "too insular" to rise to Nobel Prize status, the academy yesterday awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.

AP - A surprising number of bettors correctly chose French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio to win the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature ? leading the Nobel prize jury to suspect a leak.