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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Writing
13 Apr 1940 (86 years)
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Biography
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". Le Clézio's mother was born in the French Rivie...
Also Known As
J. M. G. Le Clézio
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