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Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio (often shortened J.M.G. Clézio ) is a writer French born the April 13rd 1940 with Nice.

Biography

Clézio is originating in a family of Brittany emigrated with the Mauritius at the 18th century (his/her father was surgeon in the British army in Africa). It continued studies with the university literary College of Nice then became teaching in the United States.

In spite of many voyages, J.M.G. Clézio forever ceased writing since the age of seven or eight years. Laid off Letters, it became famous at 23 years when the Procès-Verbal appeared, for which it accepted the Prix Renaudot in 1963, after having missed little the Prix Goncourt.

Since, it published more than thirty books: tales, novels, Test S, news, two translations of Indian Mythology, as well as innumerable forewords and articles and some contributions to collective works. In his work, one can distinguish two periods rather clearly.

Of 1963 with 1975, the novels and tests of Clézio explore the topics of the madness, the language, of the writing, with the will to explore certain possibilities formal and typographical, in the line of other writers of its time (Georges Perec or Michel Butor). Clézio then has an image of innovative and revolted writer who is worth to him the admiration of Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze.

At the end of the Years 1970, Clézio operates a change in its style of writing and publishes more alleviated books, with the more serene writing, where the topics of childhood, minority, voyage, pass in the foreground. This new manner allures the general public. In 1980, Clézio was the first to receive the Prix Paul Morand, decreed by the French Academy, for its work Désert .

Later, in 1994, it was elected great writer living of French language.

It is also in love with the Korean culture .

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