Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
1940
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Nouveau Roman
genre: novel
native language: French
educated at: University of Bristol, Aix-Marseille University, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I, University of Côte d'Azur
occupation: writer, translator, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, university teacher
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ɡystav lə klezjo]; 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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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