President Sarkozy congratulates Literature and Medicine Nobel prizewinners
- President Sarkozy congratulates M. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio for his Nobel Prize in Literature
- President Sarkozy congratulates French and German Medicine Nobel Prize winners
This week France’s continued excellence in the the Arts and Sciences has been recognized with the award of Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Literature. The French President has congratulated the winners
President Sarkozy congratulates M. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio for his Nobel Prize in Literature
Paris, 9 October 2008
I have learned with immense pride that the Nobel Prize in Literature has just been awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
I extend to him my warmest congratulations on behalf of all the French for the most prestigious reward a writer can receive, which honours France, the French language and the Francophone world.
The Stockholm Academy has today singled out for distinction one of our greatest writers and added M. Jean-Marie Le Clézio’s name to the list of thirteen French winners who have preceded him in the history of the world of letters.
A child in Mauritius and Nigeria, a teenager in Nice, a nomad of the American and African deserts, Jean-Marie Le Clézio is a citizen of the world, a son of every continent and every culture. A great traveller, he embodies France’s influence, her culture and her values in a globalized world where he proudly epitomizes the literature of the Francophone world.
His work and his style, honoured today by his peers, have been familiar to readers since 1963 which saw the publication of his first novel "Le Procès verbal" [published in English in 1964 under the title "The Interrogation"]./.
President Sarkozy congratulates French and German Medicine Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just been awarded to Mme Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and M. Luc Montagnier, and the German Harald zur Hausen for their work resulting, respectively, in the discovery of the AIDS virus (HIV) and of the viruses causing cervical cancer.
President Sarkozy extends personally, and on behalf of the whole nation, his most sincere congratulations to the winners of this prestigious prize, at the Institut Pasteur and INSERM [French health and medical research institute]. It is the first Nobel Prize in Medicine for a French team since that awarded to Professor Jean Dausset in 1980.
The discovery of the AIDS virus at the beginning of the 1980s signalled the start of a period of intense research leading to the development of antiretroviral treatments. Today, millions of people throughout the world benefit from these treatments.
This Nobel prize honours all French and European medicine and biomedical research. It is an incentive to pursue the reforms promoting excellence and innovation in research./.
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