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...sides leads back to Mauritius, an island about 500 miles east of Madagascar that has been best known in the West, at least until now, as the home of the famously extinct dodo. The son of a doctor, Le Clézio grew up in France and Nigeria speaking French and English. He began writing at the age of 8 - one of his childhood efforts, composed on a long voyage to Nigeria, contains a list of his forthcoming works. His family traveled prodigiously, and Le Clézio's early experience with other cultures, and with exile, would mark everything...
...contemporary life have drained it of meaning; he has often stated that his favorite novelists are James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson. Le proces-verbal was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot, and Le Clézio has been in the front rank of French literature ever since...
...Moroccan Sahara. A lyrical, occasionally hallucinatory work, it deals with the marginalized but still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic," Le Clézio said in a 2001 interview with the French newsmagazine Label France. "It places the greatest possible emphasis on its urban and technical side, thus preventing the development of other forms of expression - religiosity and feelings, for example. The entire unknowable part of the human being is obscured in the name of rationalism. It is my awareness of this that...
...literary output and his blend of fiction and ethics - he took up environmental causes long before they entered the collective consciousness - have made him one of the most popular writers in France. As far back as 1994, a poll by a French literary magazine found Le Clézio listed as the greatest writer in the French language. (Never one to show much, if any, emotion, Le Clézio responded to the result by saying, "I would have put Julien Gracq...
...stories to create a political space to advocate change. “We are a small team and we need the faculty and students of academic institutions like Harvard to be researchers, web designers, pro bono translators and lawyers,” said Higonnet, who is the daughter of French history professor Patrice L. Higonnet ’58. According to Higonnet, drawing upon this kind of talent will help develop reparations policies and change cultural and governmental systems in countries such as Iraq...