J.M.G. Le Clezio / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1993
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Mexican Dream

    Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the ...

  • The Prospector

    The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France's preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idy...

  • Onitsha

    Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situa...

  • The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts

    Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clezio lends his voice to t...

  • The Giants

  • The Interrogation

    From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964. "J.M.G. Le Clézio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the Paris Express after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used...

  • Desert

    A masterpiece from J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The parallel stories of a lost culture in the North African desert and their descendants, unwanted immigrants in Europe.Desert is two stories. The first takes place betw...

  • Wandering Star

    “This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it.” -- The Telegraph

    From the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wandering...

  • Terra Amata

    For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute d...



  • Mondo & Other Stories

    In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clezio as an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation. The outlying humanity that L...

  • The Book of Flights

  • War

  • On the Wrong Side

    A short story collection from Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clézio offers a poignant and powerful exploration of the lives of the underprivileged and marginalized. J. M. G. Le Clézio’s On the Wrong Side, a collection of eight sho...

  • Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul

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    An exploration of Seoul -- its landscape and its storiesby Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clzio The French writer and Nobel Literature laureate J. M. G. Le Clzio has harbored a keen interest in Korea that not only prompted him to learn and master t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.M.G. Le Clezio / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has published 14 books.

J.M.G. Le Clezio / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, On the Wrong Side, was published in October 2024.

The first book by J.M.G. Le Clezio / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, The Mexican Dream, was published in December 1993.

No. J.M.G. Le Clezio / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio does not write books in series.
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