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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: Quick Facts

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Born April 13, 1940 (age 86) ‱ Nice ‱ France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2008)
Notable Works “Alma” ‱ “Ballaciner” ‱ “DĂ©sert” ‱ “Onitsha” ‱ “Ritournelle de la faim” ‱ “The Interrogation”
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
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Doris Lessing
British writer
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
Anatole France
Anatole France
French writer
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust
French writer
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
GĂŒnter Grass
GĂŒnter Grass
German writer
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
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Imre Kertész
Hungarian writer
Herta MĂŒller, 2009.
Herta MĂŒller
Romanian-born German writer
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish author