J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France’s best-known contemporary writers.
He has written more than 40 fiction and nonfiction books, including works for children.
The Interrogation, his first novel, published when he was only 23, was a literary sensation. It received the prestigious Renaudot Prize in France and the author was recognized, as the Swedish academy put it, as “a conjurer who tried to lift words above the degenerate state of everyday speech and to restore to them the power to invoke an essential reality.”
He currently divides his time between Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught literature for many years, Mauritius, and Nice.
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