Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 2008author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization
- Citizenship
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Mauritius 
France - Languages
- English, Spanish, Italian, French
- date of birth
- 4/13/1940
- place of birth
- Nice
- Age
- 86 years
- member of
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- comité de lecture des éditions Gallimard
- start time: 1/1/1979
- end time: 1/1/1987
- comité de lecture des éditions Gallimard
- notable work
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- Désert
- Le Procès-Verbal
- educated at
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- University of Bristol
- University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
- University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I
- Aix-Marseille University
- University of Côte d'Azur
- occupation
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- translator
- journalist
- university teacher
- children's writer
- essayist
- writer
- novelist
- field of work
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- translation
- journalism
- prose
- creative and professional writing