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J.M.G. Le Clézio

Born

in Nice, France

April 13, 1940

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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.

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Average rating: 3.66 · 26,039 ratings · 3,209 reviews · 166 distinct works • Similar authors

	Desert by J.M.G. Le Clézio, C. Dickson (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 2,354 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El africano by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Juana Bignozzi (Translator), Fabián Lebenglik (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 2,280 ratings — published 2004 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prospector by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Carol Marks (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poisson d'or 3.44 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ritournelle de la faim 3.44 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clézio, C. Dickson (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 1,099 ratings — published 1992 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Daphne Woodward (Translator) 3.26 avg rating — 1,187 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mondo et autres histoires 3.51 avg rating — 1,031 ratings — published 1978 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul 3.48 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diego et Frida 3.64 avg rating — 861 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Fever

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“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Wandering Star

tags: travel

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“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
― J.M.G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights

tags: books, lives

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