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JeanMarie Gustave Le Clzio , usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clzio, is a FrenchMauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le ProcsVerbal, as well as the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his lifes work, as an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.

Le Clzios mother was born in the French Riviera city of Nice, his father on the island of Mauritius . Both his fathers and his mothers ancestors were originally from Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany. His paternal ancestor Franois Alexis Le Clzio fled France in 1798 and settled with his wife and daughter on Mauritius, which was then a French colony but would soon pass into British hands. The colonists were allowed to maintain their customs and use of the French language. Le Clzio has never lived in Mauritius for more than a few months at a time, but he has stated that he regards himself both as a Frenchman and a Mauritian. He has dual French and Mauritian citizenship and calls Mauritius his little fatherland.

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