Le Clezio, born in Nice, France, published his first novel Essays in 1963 and won the Renault Literature Prize. Since then, he has published more than 30 works, including novels, essays and translations. From 65438 to 0980, Le Clezio won the Paul Moran Prize for Literature. 1994, he was selected as one of the greatest French writers in the world in a reader survey conducted by the French magazine Reading. In 2008, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature because of the war.