J. M. G. Le Clézio

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born in Nice on 13 April 1940. His father, born in Mauritius into a family of Breton origin, was a doctor in the British army: in 1948, the child left with his mother to join him in Nigeria. He published his first novel in 1963 and immediately received, at twenty-three, the prix Renaudot. He became passionate about the Indian cultures of Mexico and lived from 1970 to 1974 among the Emberá of Panama. Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008, he divides his time between Nice, Mauritius and Albuquerque.

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