Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ( born 13 April 1940), 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 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. |
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