He won the Nobel prize for literature in 2008.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
There are six Categories of noble prize, the 2008 winner were: Physics: Yochiro Nambu; Makoto Kobayashi; Toshihide Maskawa Chemistry: Osamu Shimomura; Martin Chalfie; Roger Tsien Medicine: Haradl zur Hausen; Francios Barre-Sinoussi; Luc Montagnier Literature: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Peace: Martti Ahtisaari Economics: Paul Krugman
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".Source : The official website of nobel prize
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
Many Indians won the nobel prize they are Rabindranath Tagore(Nobel Prize for Literature),Chandrashekar Venkata Raman(Nobel Prize in Physics),Hargobind Khorana(The Nobel Prize for Medicine),Mother Teresa(The Nobel Peace Prize),Subramanian Chandrashekar(The Nobel Prize for Physics),Amartya Sen(Nobel Prize for Economics) and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath
Nobel (for Alfred Nobel) Peace (opposite of war) Prize (you won something)Nobel Peace Prize
That depends on which Nobel Prize you are referring to.2008 Nobel Prize in Physics:Yoichiro Nambu - "discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"andMakoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa - "discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien - "discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:Harald zur Hausen - "discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"andFrancoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier - "discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"2008 Nobel Prize in Literature:Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - "new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"2008 Nobel Peace Prize:Martti Ahtisaari - "important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel:Paul Krugman - "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"(Information from Nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Peace Prize was created in 1901 by the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.