The French author and professor – who spent his childhood in Nigeria and who has taught at universities around the world – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. He has written more than 400 works, including such books as "Ourania" and "L'Africain." The Nobel committee said they selected Le Clézio because he was the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
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