About
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, born April 13, 1940, in Nice, is a French writer, also a Mauritian citizen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008, praised as an 'explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization'. His first novel, Le Procès-verbal (1963), won the Prix Renaudot. He lived among indigenous peoples in Panama in the 1970s, an experience that profoundly shaped his work. He has published over forty works, including Désert (1980), Le Chercheur d'or (1985), and L'Africain (2004).
* 1940-04-13
Major works
- Le Procès-verbal (1963)novel
- Désert (1980)novel
- Le Chercheur d'or (1985)novel
- Onitsha (1991)novel
- L'Africain (2004)narrative
Key milestones
- 1963Publication of his first novel, Le Procès-verbal, which received the Prix Renaudot.
- 1980Publication of Désert, which received the Grand Prix Paul-Morand from the Académie française.
- 2008Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Themes
Exile and identityNature and ecologyIndigenous culturesChildhood and memoryTravel and quest
Sources: nobelprize.org · id.loc.gov · bristol.ac.uk
