Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Novelist, Author
1940 –
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Who is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio?
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal, as well as 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".
Famous Quotes:
- De temps en temps il s'arrête de mâcher son chewing-gum, il entrouve ses lèvres et il souffle une bulle. La bulle verte se gonfle, se distend, puis elle explose avec un bruit sec. On appelle ça un bubble-gum.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1940
Nice - Also known as
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
- J. M. G. Le Clezio
- J.M.G. Le Clézio
- J. M. Le Clezio
- J.-M. G. Le Clézio
- Jean-Marie Gustave LeClezio
- Ethnicity
- Breton people
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- University of Bristol
- Lived in
- Nice
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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