J.M.G. Le Clézio





J.M.G. Le Clézio

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born
in Nice, France
April 13, 1940

gender
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J. M. G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauritian novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.


Average rating: 3.63 · 3,884 ratings · 508 reviews · 62 distinct works · Similar authors
Desert
by
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1966 — 31 editions
Wandering Star
by
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions
The Interrogation
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1963 — 18 editions
The Prospector
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1969 — 13 editions
Onitsha
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions
El Africano
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions
Ritournelle de la faim
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
Mondo et autres histoires
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
Poisson d'or
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions
Diego et Frida
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions
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“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
J.M.G. Le Clézio, Fever

“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”
J.M.G. Le Clézio, Wandering Star

“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
J.M.G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights

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