J. M. G. Le Clezio - French novelist (2 books)

J. M. G. Le CLÉZIO (b. 1940) is a French-Mauritian writer. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." He has written over forty highly acclaimed books and has been translated into thirty-six languages.

THE INTERROGATION [Le Procès-Verbal], his first novel, won the Prix Renaudot in 1963. London's Sunday Telegraph called it "a brilliant and fascinating literary debut, flecked throughout with an originality and a freshness of thought which stirs the imagination."

The Swedish Academy, in awarding the Nobel Prize, praised DESERT [Désert] as Le Clézio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, the book received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Académie Française.


Both the following are in EPUB format:

* DESERT (David R. Godine, 2009). Translated by C. Dickson.

* THE INTERROGATION (Penguin, 2008). Translated by Daphne Woodward.