J. M. G. Le Clzio (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jean- Marie Gustave Le Clzio (born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clzio, is a French author, professor, and Nobel laureate. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procs-Verbal. Le Clzio's mother was born in the French Riviera city of Nice, his father on the island of Mauritius (which was a British possession, but his father was ethnically French). Both his father's and his mother's ancestors were originally from Morbihan on the west coast of Brittany. His paternal ancestor Franois Alexis Le Clzio fled France in 1798 and settled with his wife and daughter on the island of Mauritius, which was then a French colony but would soon pass into British hands. The French colonists were allowed to maintain their French customs and use of the French language. Although the author Le Clzio has never lived in Mauritius for more than a few months at a time, he regards himself both as a Frenchman and a Mauritian.