Look at him. Venerable. Wizened. With a mole, that one little facial flaw that completes the perfection. Good hair too. A nice shock of hair.
Jean Marie Gustave LeClezio, 2008's Nobel Prize winner for literature. A fella who needs some introduction, for prior to his selection by the Nobel committee few on this side of the pond had heard of LeClezio. I confess that I had not.
In the days leading up to the announcement, the Nobel Folks summarily dismissed the notion that an America...