The Nobel jury said Le Clézio "stood out as an ecologically engaged author", citing his novels Terra Amata, The Book of Flights, War and The Giants.
It would not be just any story of the flight from war in Syria.
It is the brainchild of Valentino Achak Deng, whose flight from war and starvation is recounted in the best-selling book by Dave Eggers, "What is the What".
But to local people, it represents an older Sicilian story: of migration and flight from war, and the commercial opportunities those movements bring.
Tusk suggested that it was a myth that the majority of refugees reaching Europe were Syrians in flight from war and said that more than two-thirds were irregular migrants who should be turned back.
I don't know what would have happened if I had been on a British Airways flight". The war crimes arrest warrant was issued over allegations that Mr Almog ordered the destruction of 59 civilian homes in Gaza, in breach of the Geneva convention.
In the first one, Schneider gives a succinct and highly perceptive overview of literary representations of flight, exile, war, and the loss of a home(land), and drawing on psychological research on resilience pays particular attention to the transformations and positive appropriation of these experiences.
In Serbia, he spoke with CARE's Ninja Taprogge about his flight, the war in his homeland and his hopes.
Ten years after flighting a war, Georgia and Russia still can't get along.
Paterson's most recent book is "The Day of the Pelican," a moving, dramatic story of a refugee family's flight from war-torn Kosovo to America.
