Jonathan Taylor writes:

An event featuring Jean-Marie Le Clézio, the 2008 Nobel laureate for literature, "in conversation with Adam Gopnik" April 24 at the 92nd St. Y, has been added to the PEN World Voices Schedule (here's a link to my previous post with festival event picks).

It's a shame that Le Clézio's story "The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea," which appeared in The New Yorker after his Nobel win, isn't freely available online.

PEN press release below:

The PEN World Voices Festival is pleased to announce a very special
Pre-Festival event with Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
This will be Mr Le Clezio's first major US appearance since being
awarded the Nobel for Literature.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio in conversation with Adam Gopnik.
Friday April 24 at 8pm
92nd St Y
1395 Lexington St
New York, NY

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to French writer
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the author of more than 40 works. The
Swedish Academy, in announcing the award, called Le Clézio an "author
of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a
humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
This event is made possible through the support of The Cultural
Services of the French Embassy and the 92nd St Y Unterberg Poetry
Center.

More information will be available on www.pen.org/worldvoices shortly,
and tickets will go on-sale later today through www.smarttix.com.