name: J.M.G. Le Clézio
birth_date: 1940-04-13 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: Lautréamont, N, Stevenson, Nathalie Sarraute, Henri Michaux, Joseph Conrad, Rimbaud, Georges Perec
avg_rating: 3.65
ratings_count: 22787
about: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauriciano 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.