{"id":265056,"date":"2008-10-09T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/10\/09\/nobel-for-literature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:47","slug":"nobel-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/10\/09\/nobel-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported everywhere in the damn world, French novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/oct\/09\/nobelprize.awardsandprizes\">Jean Marie Gustave le Cl\u00e9zio<\/a> has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n<p>So says the Swedish Academy: &#8220;[He is an] author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this year the Prize for Literature garnered some extra attention due to some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1303\">comments<\/a> from the Academy&#8217;s Horace Engdahl, suggesting that the U.S. is too culturally insular. Some people got a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1310\">peeved<\/a>, to say the least. <\/p>\n<p>Avoiding comment on le Cl\u00e9zio himself, I do enjoy that the award then went to a Frenchman. As we all know, there is nothing more patently anti-American than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported everywhere in the damn world, French novelist Jean Marie Gustave le Cl\u00e9zio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. So says the Swedish Academy: &#8220;[He is an] author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.&#8221; Of course, this year the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[15286,4506,5936],"class_list":["post-265056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-controversy","tag-njf","tag-nobel-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265056\/revisions\/356596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}