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J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in Nice on 13 April 1940; he comes from a Breton family that emigrated to the island of Mauritius in the eighteenth century. He studied at the University College of Literature in Nice, and received his PhD. Despite his numerous travels, J. M. G. Le Clézio never stopped writing since the age of seven or eight: poems, fairy tales, short stories, novels, none of which were published until The Protocol, his first novel, which was published in September 1963 and for which he won the Renodo Prize. Today, his oeuvre includes about forty volumes. In 1980, he won the Paul Moran Grand Prix of the French Academy for his novel The Desert. He is an honorary professor at many universities. In 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1 January 2009, he has been an officer of the Legion of Honour.