This year's Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
This year's Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
The prize is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($US1.4 million).
The Swedish Academy on Thursday called him an author of new departures and poetic adventures, describing him as "a citizen of the world, a nomad."
Le Clezio, 68, has lived with indigenous peoples in Mexico and Central America and describes the experience as crucial to his world view.
He published his first novel, The Interrogation in 1964, when he was 23. His big breakthrough came in 1980 with Desert.
British author Doris Lessing won last year's Nobel prize.
