Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (; born 13 April 1940), usually identified as
J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-
Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963
Prix Renaudot for his novel
Le Procès-Verbal, as well as 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".