Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
b. 1940
French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)
- Born
- 13 Apr 1940 · Nice
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 13 Apr 1940BornBorn in Nice
- 1963AwardPrix Renaudot
- 1972AwardPrix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- 1980AwardGrand prix de littérature Paul-Morand
- 1997AwardGrand prix Jean-Giono
- 2008AwardNobel Prize in Literature
- 2008AwardStig Dagerman Prize
- 2020AwardPrix Breizh
- 2026AwardPrix mondial Cino Del Duca
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – today).
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Biography
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ɡystav lə klezjo]; born 13 April 1940), 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".
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