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.

A great traveler, J.M.G. Le Clézio has been writing since age seven or eight. After majoring in French literature, he became famous at 23 with his first novel, Le Procès-Verbal (The Deposition), which was shortlisted for the prix Goncourt and for which he was awarded the prix Renaudot in 1963.

Since then he has published about thirty books, including short stories, novels, essays, two translations on the subject of Indian mythology, countless prefaces and reviews as well as a few contributions to collective publications.

In 1994 a survey conducted by the French literary magazine Lire showed that 13% of the readers considered him to be the greatest living French language writer.

Books

Le Procès-Verbal (Prix Renaudot 1963) (The Deposition)
La Fièvre (Fever)
Déluge (The Flood) (1966)
L'Extase matérielle (Material Ecstasy) (1967)
Terra Amata (novel) (Beloved Earth) (1967)
Le Livre des fuites (The Book of Escapes)
La Guerre (War)
Haï (1971)
Mydriase (1973)
Les Géants (The Giants) (1973)
Voyages de l'autre côté (Journeys Beyond) (1975)
Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam (Chilam Balam Prophecies) (1976)
Vers les icebergs (Essai sur Henri Michaux) (To the Icebergs; an essay on Henri Michaux)(1978)
Mondo et autres histoires (Mondo and other stories) (1978)
L'Inconnu sur la Terre (The Stranger on the Earth) (1978)
Trois villes saintes (Three Holy Cities)
Désert (novel) (1980) (Desert)
La Ronde et autres faits divers The Round and other cold hard facts
Relation de Michoacan
Le Chercheur d'Or (The Prospector)
Diego et Frida (Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo)
Voyage à Rodrigues (Journey to Rodrigues)
Le Rêve mexicain ou la pensée interrompue (The Mexican Dream or Broken Thought)
Printemps et autres saisons (Spring and other Seasons)
Onitsha (novel) (a reference to the African city of Onitsha)
Étoile errante (Wandering Star)
Pawana
La Quarantaine (Quarantine)
Poisson d'or (The Golden Fish)
Gens des nuages (with Jémia Le Clézio) (The Cloud People)
La Fête chantée (Sung Celebration)
Hasard (suivi d'Angoli Mala) (Serendipity)
Cœur Brûle et autres romances (Burnt Heart and other romances)
Révolutions
L'Africain (2004) (The African)
Ourania (2006)
(From Wikipedia)

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