Posts Tagged ‘translations’

Bestselling Le Clézio books

Friday, October 10th, 2008

AbeBooks.com is seeing major interest in JMG Le Clézio books as the majority of his books are hard to find or out-of-print. People are snapping up used copies very fast and the majority of buyers are coming from the United States. Who says American readers are insular? Our booksellers are offering more French language versions of his books than English translations but we’re expect sellers to upload more copies over the weekend.

The bestselling Le Clézio books on AbeBooks are….
1 The Interrogation (Le Proces-Verbal)
2 Fever (La Fiévre)
3 The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers)
4 The Flood (Le Deluge)
5 Onitsha (same title for English translation)

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Le Clézio wins 2008 Nobel Literature Prize

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Earlier today in Stockholm The Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. This years winner was the French Writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who has written more than 40 books, 12 of which have been translated into English.

His Collectable first editions are currently selling for up to $850, which if you compare to past winners, ie Dorris Lessing at $8500 makes Le Clezio a comparative bargain right now.

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