Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a writer and professor who holds both French and Mauritian nationality. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel The Interrogation 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". The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008, announced October 9, 2008. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: born 1940, Nice, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).