Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Diego & Frida

The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008 awarded Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, or J.M.G. Le Clézio (born April 13, 1940 in Nice) is a French novelist. He was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.