Jmg le clezio biography

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J. M. G. Le Clézio

French writer and professor (Born:1940)

J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Clézio in 2008
Born	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (1940-04-13) 13 April 1940 (age 84) Nice, France
Occupation	Writer
Period	1963–present
Genre	Novel short story essay translation
Subject	Exile migration childhood ecology
Notable works
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French:[ʒɑ̃maʁiɡystavləklezjo]; 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British 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".^[1]

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Desert
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El africano
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The Prospector
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Ritournelle erupt la faim

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Wandering Star
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The Interrogation
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Bitna: Err the Blurred of Seoul

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Quick facts for kids J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Clézio in 2008
Born	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (1940-04-13) 13 April 1940 (age 84) Nice, France
Occupation	Writer
Period	1963–present
Genre	Novel, short story, essay, translation
Subject	Exile, migration, childhood, ecology
Notable works	Le Procès-Verbal, Désert
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

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.

Biography

Le Clézio's mother was born in the French Riviera city of Nice, his father on the island of Mauritius (which was a British possession, but his father was ethnically Breton, in France). Both his father's and his mother's ancestors were originally from Morbihan, on the south coast of Brittany. His paternal ancestor François Alexis Le Clézio fled France in 1798 and settled with his wife and daughter on Mauritius, which was then a French colony but would soon pass into British hands. The colonists were allowed to maintain the