Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioAwards:
Prix Renaudot Award -1963 for his novel
Desert ,Nobel
Prize in Literature-2008 . He was the First French Language writer
to receive the Prize in literature since Claude Simon in 1985
and 14th since Sully Prudhomme got the first prize in 1901.
Born: 13/04/1940 in Nice, the 5th most
populous city of France
Citizen: French, Mauritian
Language: French
JMG Le Clezio called himself French-Mauritian
because his father, though an ethnic French man, was born in Mauritius
when the country was a French colony and Le Clezio developed a deep
feeling for Mauritius and called it "my little fatherland" even though
he himself never spent more than a few months' time in Mauritius. He
was born when his father was serving the French Army in Nigeria.
Le Clezio studied in University of
Bristol,England & Nice's Institutd'etudes litteraires and got his
Master's Degree in 1964 from University of Provence, Marseille,
France. After serving for sometime in England, he moved to US to wotk
as a teacher. In 1967, he served in French Military in Thailand but
was expelled from Thailand after he raised his voice against child
prostitution in Thailand. Then he moved to Mexico to serve his
residual obligation there.
At the age of 23, Le Clezio published his
first novel "The Interrogation" which made him famous. His literary
career can be broadly divided into two phases- first phase where the
theme was torment, expression and language and in the second phase,
the theme was childhood & adolescence, traveling. In 1994, a survey by
Literary magazine Lire showed that 13% of the readers considered Le
Clezio as the Greatest living French Writer. He had worked
successfully in novels, short stories, translations.
Notable Works: Le
Proces-Verbal-The Interrogation()
; Desert-Desert(),Le
Deluge-The Flood(); La
Guerre-War() ;Onitsha-Onitsha()
; Etoile errante-Wandering Star: A Novel();La
Fievre-Fever(); Mondo et
autres-Mondo and Other Stories();
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