| J. M. G. Le Clézio AKA Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Born: 13-Apr-1940
Birthplace: Nice, France
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Author Nationality: France
Executive summary: Nomadic novelist In the announcement of his Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl�zio was described as "a traveler, a citizen of the world, a nomad". He is of French, English, and Mauritian descent, spent a year of his childhood in Nigeria, and has lived in Albuquerque, Bangkok, Mexico City, and among the Embera natives in Panama.
Le Cl�zio's writing is as eclectic as his past, sometimes embracing and sometimes rejecting traditional styles and structure, and telling wide-ranging tales of indigenous peoples in Mexico, North African immigrants in France, ocean island-dwellers, etc. If there is a recurring theme to his work, it often involves people removed from their own cultures or seeking their own identity. D�sert, perhaps his best-known novel, tells the story of a nomadic tribal woman under French colonialism. Le Cl�zio's works are generally unknown in the United States, and he has criticized present-day American popular authors as "too isolated" and "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture". Wife: Rosalie Piquemal (m. 1960, div., one daughter)
Wife: Jemia (one daughter)
University: Bristol University (attended, 1958-59)
Teacher: Bath Grammar School, Bath, England (1959-61)
University: BS, Institute of Literary Studies, Paris, France (1963)
University: MA, University of Aix-en-Provenc (1964)
Teacher: Buddhist University of Bangkok (1966-67)
Teacher: National Autonomous University of Mexico (1967-68)
University: PhD, University of Perpignan (1983)
Nobel Prize for Literature 2008
Stig Dagermanpriset 2008
Prix Prince de Monaco 1998
Grand Prix Jean Giono 1997
Grand Prix Paul Morand de l�Acad�mie Fran�aise 1980
Prix Larbaud 1972
Prix Th�ophraste Renaudot 1963
French Ancestry (maternal)
English Ancestry (paternal)
Author of books:
Le Proc�s-Verbal (The Interrogation) (1963, novel)
Le Jour o� Beaumont fit Connaissance avec sa Douleur (1964, novel)
La Fi�vre (The Fever) (1965, novel)
Le D�luge (The Flood) (1966, novel)
L'Extase Mat�rielle (1966, non-fiction)
Terra Amata (1968, novel)
Le Livre des Fuites (The Book of Flights) (1969, novel)
La Guerre (War) (1970, novel)
Ha� (1971, non-fiction)
Les G�ants (The Giants) (1973, novel)
Mydriase (1973, non-fiction)
Voyages de l'Autre C�t� (1975, novel)
Les Proph�ties du Chilam Balam (1976)
Voyage aux Pays des Arbres (1978)
L'Inconnu sur la Terre (1978, non-fiction)
Vers les Icebergs (1978, non-fiction)
Mondo et Autres Histoires (1978, novel)
D�sert (Autiomaa) (1980, novel)
Trois Villes Saintes (1980, non-fiction)
Lullaby (1980, children's book)
La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers (The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts) (1982, short stories)
Celui qui'n Avait Jamais vu la Mer (1984)
Le Chercheur d'or (The Prospector) (1985, novel)
Villa Aurore (Orlamonde) (1985)
Balaabilou (1985)
Voyage � Rodrigues (1986, novel)
Les Ann�es Cannes (1987)
Le R�ve Mexicain (Mexican Dream) (1988, non-fiction)
Printemps et Autres Saisons (1989, novel)
Sirandanes (1990)
Onitsha (1991, novel)
Pawana (1992, novel)
�toile Errante (Wandering Star) (1992, novel)
Diego et Frida (Diego & Frida) (1993, non-fiction)
La Quarantaine (1995, novel)
In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas (1996, with Geoff Winningham)
Poisson d'or (1997)
La F�te Chant�e (1997, non-fiction)
Enfances (1997, with Christophe Kuhn)
Hasard suivi de Angoli Mala (1999, novel)
Fant�mes Dans la Rue (2000)
Coeur Br�l� et Autres Romances (2000, novel)
R�volutions (2003)
L'Africain (2004, short stories)
Mondo et Autres Histoires (2005)
Ourania (2006, novel)
Raga: Approche du Continent Invisible (2006, non-fiction)
Ballaciner (2007, memoir and movie reviews)
Ritournelle de la Faim (Same Old Story about Hunger) (2008, novel)
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