J. M. G. Le Clézio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

J. M. G. Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1940

Place of Birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Profession: writer, translator, journalist, children's writer, novelist, essayist

Nationality: France, Mauritius

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French: [??~ ma?i gystav l? klezjo]; 13 April 1940), usually identified as J.
M.
G.
Le Clézio, is a French writer and professor.
The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".