Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is a writer and professor who holds both French and Mauritian nationality. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel The Interrogation and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

- The Interrogation 1963 novel alienation, madness, language, identity en

- Fever 1965 short-stories illness, madness, alienation, urban life en

- The Flood 1966 novel urban life, alienation, fear, violence en

- Terra Amata 1967 novel existance, childhood, time, mortality en

- War 1970 novel violence, war, modernity, consumerism en

- Desert 1980 novel exile, nomadism, colonialism, desert en

- The African 2004 biography autobiography, africa, childhood en