# J. M. G. Le Clézio bibliography

This is a list of works by J. M. G. Le Clézio, the French Nobel Laureate.

## Novels

| Title in French | English translation | Date of French publication | Date of English publication |
| Le Procès-Verbal | The Interrogation | 1963 | 1963 |
| Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur | ----------- | 1964 | ----------- |
| Le Livre des fuites | The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story | 1965 | 1971 |
| Le Déluge | The Flood | 1966 | 1967 |
| Terra amata | Terra Amata | 1969 | 1969 |
| La Guerre | War | 1970 | 1973 |
| Les Géants | The Giants | 1973 | 1975 |
| Voyages de l'autre côté | ----------- | 1975 | ----------- |
| Désert | Desert | 1980 | 2009 |
| Lullaby | ----------- | 1980 | ----------- |
| Le Chercheur d'or | The prospector | 1985 | 1993 |
| La Grande Vie | the Great Life | 1986 | 1986 |
| Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer(suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant) | The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea | 1988 | 2008 |
| Onitsha | Onitsha | 1991 | 1997 |
| Étoile errante | Wandering Star. | 1992 | 2004 |
| La Quarantaine | ----------- | 1995 | ----------- |
| Poisson d'or | ----------- | 1997 | ----------- |
| Hasard suivi de Angoli Mala | ----------- | 1999 | ----------- |
| Villa Aurore | ----------- | 1999 | ----------- |
| Fantômes dans la rue | ----------- | 2000 | ----------- |
| Révolutions | ----------- | 2003 | ----------- |
| Ourania | ----------- | 2006 | ----------- |
| Voyage au pays des arbres | ----------- | 2007 | ----------- |
| Ritournelle de la faim | ----------- | 2008 | ----------- |
| Alma | ----------- | 2017 | ----------- | - |

## Children's books

| Title in French | English translation | Date of French publication | Date of English publication |
| Lullaby | ----------- | 1980 ISBN 978-3-425-04914-4 | ----------- |
| La Grande Vie suivi de Peuple du ciel | La Grande Vie translated as The Great Life Peuple du ciel has not been translated into English | 1980 ISBN 978-3-425-04861-1 ISBN 978-2-07-055179-8 | 1986 |
| Peuple du ciel, suivi de 'Les Bergers | --------- | 1981 ISBN 978-2-07-042676-8 | --------- |
| Balaabilou | --------- | 1985 ISBN 978-2-07-054218-5 | --------- |
| Villa Aurore | --------- | 1999 ISBN 978-0-320-07922-1 | --------- |
| Villa Aurore; suivi de, Orlamonde | --------- | 1998 ISBN 978-2-07-051396-3 | --------- |
| L'enfant de sous le pont | ----------- | 2000 ISBN 2-914471-18-1 | ----------- |
| Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant | Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer translated into English as The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea. La Montagne ou le dieu vivant has not been translated into English | 2002 ISBN 978-2-07-051394-9 | 2008 ISSN 0028-792X |
| Voyage au pays des arbres | ----------- | 2007 ISBN 978-2-07-053665-8 | ----------- |

## Short stories
### La Fièvre

Translated by Daphne Woodward in 1966 as "The Fever"
| # | Original French | English translation |
| Introductory Letter | - | Introductory Letter (by Le Clezio) |
| 1 | La fièvre | Fever |
| 2 | Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur | The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain |
| 3 | me semble que le bateau se dirige vers lîle | It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island |
| 4 | - | Backwards |
| 5 | - | The Walking Man |
| 6 | Martin | Martin |
| 7 | - | The World is Alive |
| 8 | - | Then I shall be able to Find Peace and Slumber |
| 9 | - | A Day of Old Age |

### Mondo et autres histoires

| # | Original French | English translation |
| 1 | Mondo | - |
| 2 | Lullaby | - |
| 3 | La montagne du dieu vivant | - |
| 4 | Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer | The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea |
| 5 | Hazaran | - |
| 6 | Martin | - |
| 7 | Peuple du ciel | - |
| 8 | Les bergers | - |

### La ronde et autres faits divers

"La ronde et autres faits divers" was translated into English as "The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts" by C. Dickson.
| # | Original French | English translation |
| 1 | La ronde | The Round |
| 2 | Moloch | Moloch |
| 3 | L'échappé | The Escapee |
| 4 | Ariane | Ariadne |
| 5 | Villa Aurore | Villa Aurore |
| 6 | Le jeu d'Anne | Anne's Game |
| 7 | La grande vie | The Great Life |
| 8 | Le passeur | The Runner |
| 9 | O voleur, voleur, quelle vie est la tienne? | O Thief What Is the Life You Lead? |
| 10 | Orlamonde | Yondaland |
| 11 | David | David |

### Printemps et autres saisons

| # | Original French | English translation |
| 1 | Printemps | - |
| 2 | Fascination | - |
| 3 | Le temps ne passe pas | - |
| 4 | Zinna | - |
| 5 | La saison des pluies | The Rainy Season |

### Awaité Pawana

| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
| 1 | Awaité Pawana | Pawana | |

### La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien

| # | Original French | English translation |
| 1 | La féte chantée | - |
| 2 | Trois livres indiens | - |
| 3 | La conquête divine du Michoacan | - |
| 4 | De la féte à la guerre | - |
| 5 | Le rêve d'or de l'Amérique indienne | - |
| 6 | Les Chichimèques Indigénisme et révolution | - |
| 7 | Mythes amérindiens et littérature | - |
| 8 | La corne d'abondance | - |
| 9 | Jacobo Daciano à Tarecuato | - |
| 10 | Trois célébrations du Mexique | - |
| 11 | Peuple des oiseaux | - |
| 12 | Dzibilnocac, écrit de nuit | - |
| 13 | La voix indienne: Rigoberta Menchú | - |
| 14 | Toutes choses sont liées | - |
| 15 | La danse contre le déluge. | - |

### Cœur brûle et autres romances

| # | Original French | English translation |
| 1 | Cœur brûle | No translation. Literally, "Heart burns (and other romances") |
| 2 | Trois aventurières | Literally, "Three Adventuresses" |
| 3 | Trésor | Literally, "Treasure" |
| 4 | - | - |
| 5 | - | - |
| 6 | - | - |
| 7 | - | - |

### Tabataba suivi de pawana

| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
| 1 | Tabataba | - | |
| 2 | pawana | - | |

## Essays

| French title | French publication form | English translation | English publication form | French publication date | English publication date |
| Le Rêve mexicain ou la pensée interrompue | Book ISBN 978-2-07-032680-8 | The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations | Book ISBN 978-0-226-11002-8. | 1965 | 1993 |
| Conversations avec J.M.G. Le Clézio | Journal Mercure de France OCLC 498529 | ------------ | ------------ | 1971 | ------------ |
| Haï | Book ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5 | ------------ | ------------ | 1971 | ------------ |
| Mydriase | Book ISBN 978-2-85194-071-1 | ------------ | ------------ | 1973 | ------------ |
| Vers les icebergs (Essai sur Henri Michaux) | Book ISBN 978-2-85194-059-9 | ------------ | ------------ | 1978 | ------------ |
| L'Inconnu sur la Terre | Book ISBN 978-2-07-075488-5 | ------------ | ------------ | 1978 | ------------ |
| Trois Villes saintes | Book ISBN 978-2-07-021811-0 | ------------ | ------------ | 1980 | ------------ |
| Dans la maison d'Edith | Journal and online publication OCLC 60619315 | ------------ | ------------ | 1997 | ------------ |
| Sur Lautréamont | Book ISBN 978-2-87027-216-9 | ------------ | ------------ | 1987 | ------------ |
| Diego et Frida | Book ISBN 978-2-234-02617-9 | ------------ | ------------ | 1993 | ------------ |
| Ailleurs | Interview Jean-Louis Ezine with Le Clézio ISBN 978-2-86959-244-5 | ------------ | ------------ | 1995 | ------------ |
| Enfances | Introduction to Enfances: photographies de Christophe Kuhn ISBN 2-9510433-1-7 | ------------ | ------------ | 1998-06-26 | ------------ |
| Le Llano en flammes | Preface to French edition of El Llano en Llamas originally written in Spanish by Juan Rulfo ISBN 978-0-292-70132-8 | ------------ | ------------ | 2003-11-20 | ------------ |
| L'Extase matérielle | Book ISBN 978-2-07-023824-8 | ------------ | ------------ | 1967 | ------------ |
| L'Africain | Autobiographical essay published as a book ISBN 978-2-7152-2470-4 | ------------ | ------------ | 2004 | ------------ |
| Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio | Journal (Revue des Deux Mondes) and online publication ISSN 0750-9278 | ------------ | ------------ | 1982 | ------------ |
| Ballaciner | Book ISBN 2-07-078484-3 | ------------ | ------------ | 2007 | ------------ |
| La liberté pour Rêver and La liberté pour parler | ------------ | Freedom to Dream and Freedom to Speak | Journal and online publication | ------------ | 1997 |
| Sur la lecture comme le vrai voyage | ------------ | On reading as true travel ISSN 0196-3570 | Journal and online publication | ------------ | 1965 |
| Dans la forêt des paradoxes | Online publication | In the forest of paradoxes | Online publication | 2008-12-07 | 2008-12-07 |
| ? | ------------ | In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas | Preface to In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas entitled "Three Indian Celebrations" ISBN 978-0-393-31584-4 | ------------ | 1996-11-01 |

## Travel diaries

| Title in French | Publication Form in French | Date of French Publication | Storyline |
| Voyage à Rodrigues | BOOK (135 pages) ISBN 978-2-07-070382-1 | 1986 | Tells of how family feuds were resolved by recalling the adventure stories his grandfather told in a journey from Mauritius to Rodrigues. |
| Gens des nuages | BOOK ( 151 pages) ISBN 978-2-07-041216-7 | 1997 | Gens des nuages could be translated as meaning The Cloud People.Jémia is Le Clézio's wife and a Moroccan .Her ancestors were nomad who lived in the desert area. After her grand mother left her country, she never visited the Sahara before the trip. Photographs by Bruno Barbey. |
| Raga. Approche du continent invisible | BOOK (135 pages) ISBN 978-2-02-089909-3 | 2006 | Travels in the archipelago of Vanuatu (in particular the islands of Port Vila, Ambrym, and Espiritu Santo ).These diaries of journeys in the Pacific offer a glimpse into a way of life which is threatened by globalisation, as well as meditations on the vastness of the sea, in the "continent" which the first visitors did not recognise as a cultural and geographic unity. |

### Voyage à Rodrigues

Le Clézio, J. M. G. "Voyage a Rodrigues". Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire. Paris: MAGAZINE LITTERAIRE, no. 459, (2006): 83-85. ISSN 0024-9807.

### Raga. Approche du continent invisible

Le Clézio, J. M. G. (2006). Raga: approche du continent invisible (in French). Paris: Seuil (Series:Peuples de l'eau). p. 135. ISBN 978-2-02-089909-3.

## Collection translations
### Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
#### Translated by the Author into French

| Title | Year | Publisher | Length | Notes |
| "Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam" | 1976 | Gallimard, Le Chemin, Paris ISBN 978-0-320-07041-9 | 201 pages | Mayas--Histoire Mayas--Religion et mythologie Indiens--Mexique--Religion et mythologie Prophéties Mayas--History Mayas--Religion and mythology Indians of Mexico--Religion and mythology Prophecies |
| "Le Clézio is an expert on early Amerindian mythology and culture and produced a translation of Maya mythology into a French in Les prophéties du Chilam Balam" The Mayan Chilam Balam books are usually collections of disparate texts in which Mayan and Spanish traditions have coalesced and are in the Yucatec Maya language (in European script). Le Clezio ... is a speaker of at least a half-dozen languages, three of which are pre-Columbian, including Maya, which he learned while living in a Yucatecan village during the 1970s. When asked about his devotion to native cultures, Le Clezio repliedThe dawn of peoples is important because we seem now to be living in the dusk. You have the sense that we are getting near the end "Le Chilam Balam" is a collection of songs, prophecies and calendars kept through oral tradition. These books contain the observations, calendars and prophecies of the seer or magician named Balam, and they are named after their place of origin. |||||

### Relation de Michoacan

Translation of "Relación de Michoacan" from medieval Spanish into French. This codex, copied in the years 1539–1540, contains the narration of a Franciscan friar, whom the American historian Dr. Benedict Warren identified as Fray Gerónimo de Alcalá.

### Sirandanes
#### Translated by the Author into French

| Title | Year | Publisher | Length | Notes |
| "Sirandanes" | 1988 | Seghers, Paris ISBN 2-232-10327-7 | 93 pages | co-translated by his wife Jémia . |
| Includes a glossary entitled"Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux" meaning this glossagy is a small lexicon of a creole language and a guide to birds. |||||