Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a globetrotting French author, professor, and Nobel laureate. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal. 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 French). Both his father'... more

Date of birth:

  • 1940 (age 69 years)

Place of birth:

Also known as:

  • Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio,
  • J. M. G. Le Clezio,
  • J.M.G. Le Clézio,
  • J. M. Le Clezio
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Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • 2008
  • "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
  • 1963
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