Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2026).
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio is a writer and professor who holds both French and Mauritian nationality. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel The Interrogation 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 humanit…
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culture · French writer and professor (born 1940) · writer · translator · novelist · essayist · children's writer · journalist · university teacher · also Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. G. Le Clezio, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Clézio
Born 13 April 1940 · Q42037
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Breizh (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
“, trans. Le Clézio. L'extase matérielle (1967). Material Ecstasy. Conversations avec J. M. G. Le Clézio (1971) Haï (1971) Mydriase (1973). Mydriasis, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, published in Mydriasis: Followed by “To the Icebergs”
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2009· 2 entries
The New Yorker: Tomorrow: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio at the 92nd Street Y
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In 1996, he was made Officier (Officer) of the Ordre national du Mérite
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
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Los Angeles Times: French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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Vulture: France’s Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Wins Nobel Prize
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Awarded Stig Dagerman Prize (2008).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2008).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix Jean-Giono (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
A survey conducted by the French literary magazine Lire showed that 13 per cent of the readers considered him to be the greatest living French-language writer
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1983· 1 entry
Le Clézio wrote a doctoral thesis on colonial Mexican history for the University of Perpignan, on the conquest of the Purépecha people who inhabit the present-day state of Michoacán
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand (1980).
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Le Clézio was the first winner of the newly created Grand Prix Paul Morand, awarded by the Académie Française, for his novel Desert (Désert)
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud (1972).
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1967· 1 entry
Served as an aid worker in Thailand as part of his national service, but was quickly expelled from the country for protesting against child prostitution and sent to Mexico to finish his national service
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1965· 1 entry
“Sur la lecture comme le vrai voyage”
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1964· 1 entry
Le Clézio earned a master's degree from the University of Provence with a thesis on Henri Michaux and the mystical experience
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Renaudot for Le Procès-Verbal (1963).
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-04-13.
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