Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Born
- 13 April 1940, Nice
- Age
- 86
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940), 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 humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
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