Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born in Nice, France, in 1940 he continued studies at the Collège universitaire littéraire that city and taught in the United States. His father worked as a surgeon in Africa under the command of the British army. Le Clézio began to write to the seven or eight years and never stopped doing it, despite the many trips you made. At 23, he received the prestigious Prix Renaudot. He published more than thirty books, fiction and essays. He also made translations. In his work there are two periods: 1963 to 1975, his novels and essays address the themes of madness, language and writing, with a willingness to explore certain formal and typographic possibilities, in line with other contemporary writers as Georges Perec or Michel Butor. Then acquires an image of innovative and rebellious writer and has the admiration of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, among others. In the late seventies began publishing books writing calmer where evokes childhood years and travel. In 1980 he was the first recipient of the Paul Morand Award from the French Academy. In 1994 Le Clézio was chosen as the greatest living writer in the French language. And in 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. By Adriana Hidalgo has published "African", "Music of hunger", "Media ecstasy" and "Revolutions".