J. M. G. Le Clézio bibliography facts for kids
This is a list of works by J. M. G. Le Clézio, the French Nobel Laureate.
Novels
| Title in French | English translation | Date of French publication | Date of English publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Procès-Verbal | The Interrogation | 1963 | 1963 |
| Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur | ----------- | 1964 | ----------- |
| Le Livre des fuites | The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story | 1965 | 1971 |
| Le Déluge | The Flood | 1966 | 1967 |
| Terra amata | Terra Amata | 1969 | 1969 |
| La Guerre | War | 1970 | 1973 |
| Les Géants | The Giants | 1973 | 1975 |
| Voyages de l'autre côté | ----------- | 1975 | ----------- |
| Désert | Desert | 1980 | 2009 |
| Lullaby | ----------- | 1980 | ----------- |
| Le Chercheur d'or | The prospector | 1985 | 1993 |
| La Grande Vie | the Great Life | 1986 | 1986 |
| Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer(suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant) | The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea | 1988 | 2008 |
| Onitsha | Onitsha | 1991 | 1997 |
| Étoile errante | Wandering Star. | 1992 | 2004 |
| La Quarantaine | ----------- | 1995 | ----------- |
| Poisson d'or | ----------- | 1997 | ----------- |
| Hasard suivi de Angoli Mala | ----------- | 1999 | ----------- |
| Villa Aurore | ----------- | 1999 | ----------- |
| Fantômes dans la rue | ----------- | 2000 | ----------- |
| Révolutions | ----------- | 2003 | ----------- |
| Ourania | ----------- | 2006 | ----------- |
| Voyage au pays des arbres | ----------- | 2007 | ----------- |
| Ritournelle de la faim | ----------- | 2008 | ----------- |
Children's books
| Title in French | English translation | Date of French publication | Date of English publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lullaby | ----------- | 1980 |
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| La Grande Vie suivi de Peuple du ciel | La Grande Vie translated as The Great Life Peuple du ciel |
1980 |
1986 |
| Peuple du ciel, suivi de 'Les Bergers | --------- | 1981 |
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| Balaabilou | --------- | 1985 |
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| Villa Aurore | --------- | 1999 |
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| Villa Aurore; suivi de, Orlamonde | --------- | 1998 |
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| L'enfant de sous le pont | ----------- | 2000 |
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| Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant | Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer translated into English as The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea. La Montagne ou le dieu vivant |
2002 |
2008 ISSN 0028-792X |
| Voyage au pays des arbres | ----------- | 2007 |
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Short stories
La Fièvre
Translated by Daphne Woodward in 1966 as "The Fever"
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory Letter | - | Introductory Letter (by Le Clezio) | |
| 1 | La fièvre | Fever | |
| 2 | Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur | The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain | |
| 3 | me semble que le bateau se dirige vers lîle | It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island | |
| 4 | - | Backwards | |
| 5 | - | The Walking Man | |
| 6 | Martin | Martin | |
| 7 | - | The World is Alive | |
| 8 | - | Then I shall be able to Find Peace and Slumber | |
| 9 | - | A Day of Old Age |
Mondo et autres histoires
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mondo | - | |
| 2 | Lullaby | - | |
| 3 | La montagne du dieu vivant | - | |
| 4 | Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer | The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea | |
| 5 | Hazaran | - | |
| 6 | Martin | - | |
| 7 | Peuple du ciel | - | |
| 8 | Les bergers | - |
La ronde et autres faits divers
"La ronde et autres faits divers" was translated into English as "The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts" by C. Dickson.
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La ronde | The Round | |
| 2 | Moloch | Moloch | |
| 3 | L'échappé | The Escapee | |
| 4 | Ariane | Ariadne | |
| 5 | Villa Aurore | Villa Aurore | |
| 6 | Le jeu d'Anne | Anne's Game | |
| 7 | La grande vie | The Great Life | |
| 8 | Le passeur | The Runner | |
| 9 | O voleur, voleur, quelle vie est la tienne? | O Thief What Is the Life You Lead? | |
| 10 | Orlamonde | Yondaland | |
| 11 | David | David |
Printemps et autres saisons
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printemps | - | |
| 2 | Fascination | - | |
| 3 | Le temps ne passe pas | - | |
| 4 | Zinna | - | |
| 5 | La saison des pluies | The Rainy Season |
Awaité Pawana
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awaité Pawana | Pawana |
La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La féte chantée | - | |
| 2 | Trois livres indiens | - | |
| 3 | La conquête divine du Michoacan | - | |
| 4 | De la féte à la guerre | - | |
| 5 | Le rêve d'or de l'Amérique indienne | - | |
| 6 | Les Chichimèques Indigénisme et révolution | - | |
| 7 | Mythes amérindiens et littérature | - | |
| 8 | La corne d'abondance | - | |
| 9 | Jacobo Daciano à Tarecuato | - | |
| 10 | Trois célébrations du Mexique | - | |
| 11 | Peuple des oiseaux | - | |
| 12 | Dzibilnocac, écrit de nuit | - | |
| 13 | La voix indienne: Rigoberta Menchú | - | |
| 14 | Toutes choses sont liées | - | |
| 15 | La danse contre le déluge. | - |
Cœur brûle et autres romances
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cœur brûle | No translation. Literally, "Heart burns (and other romances") | |
| 2 | Trois aventurières | Literally, "Three Adventuresses" | |
| 3 | Trésor | Literally, "Treasure" | |
| 4 | - | - | |
| 5 | - | - | |
| 6 | - | - | |
| 7 | - | - |
Tabataba suivi de pawana
| # | Original French | English translation | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tabataba | - | |
| 2 | pawana | - |
Essays
| French title | French publication form | English translation | English publication form | French publication date | English publication date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Rêve mexicain ou la pensée interrompue | Book |
The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations | Book . |
1965 | 1993 |
| Conversations avec J.M.G. Le Clézio | Journal Mercure de France |
------------ | ------------ | 1971 | ------------ |
| Haï | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1971 | ------------ |
| Mydriase | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1973 | ------------ |
| Vers les icebergs (Essai sur Henri Michaux) | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1978 | ------------ |
| L'Inconnu sur la Terre | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1978 | ------------ |
| Trois Villes saintes | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1980 | ------------ |
| Dans la maison d'Edith | Journal and online publication |
------------ | ------------ | 1997 | ------------ |
| Sur Lautréamont | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1987 | ------------ |
| Diego et Frida | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1993 | ------------ |
| Ailleurs | Interview Jean-Louis Ezine with Le Clézio |
------------ | ------------ | 1995 | ------------ |
| Enfances | Introduction to Enfances: photographies de Christophe Kuhn |
------------ | ------------ | 1998-06-26 | ------------ |
| Le Llano en flammes | Preface to French edition of El Llano en Llamas originally written in Spanish by Juan Rulfo |
------------ | ------------ | 2003-11-20 | ------------ |
| L'Extase matérielle | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 1967 | ------------ |
| L’Africain | Autobiographical essay published as a book |
------------ | ------------ | 2004 | ------------ |
| Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio | Journal (Revue des Deux Mondes) and online publication ISSN 0750-9278 |
------------ | ------------ | 1982 | ------------ |
| Ballaciner | Book |
------------ | ------------ | 2007 | ------------ |
| La liberté pour Rêver and La liberté pour parler | ------------ | Freedom to Dream and Freedom to Speak | Journal and online publication | ------------ | 1997 |
| Sur la lecture comme le vrai voyage | ------------ | On reading as true travel ISSN 0196-3570 |
Journal and online publication |
------------ | 1965 |
| Dans la forêt des paradoxes | Online publication | In the forest of paradoxes | Online publication | 2008-12-07 | 2008-12-07 |
| ? | ------------ | In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas | Preface to In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas entitled "Three Indian Celebrations" |
------------ | 1996-11-01 |
Travel diaries
| Title in French | Publication Form in French | Date of French Publication | Storyline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voyage à Rodrigues | BOOK (135 pages) |
1986 | Tells of how family feuds were resolved by recalling the adventure stories his grandfather told in a journey from Mauritius to Rodrigues. |
| Gens des nuages | BOOK ( 151 pages) |
1997 | Gens des nuages could be translated as meaning The Cloud People.Jémia is Le Clézio's wife and a Moroccan .Her ancestors were nomad who lived in the desert area. After her grand mother left her country, she never visited the Sahara before the trip. Photographs by Bruno Barbey. |
| Raga. Approche du continent invisible | BOOK (135 pages) |
2006 | Travels in the archipelago of Vanuatu (in particular the islands of Port Vila, Ambrym, and Espiritu Santo ).These diaries of journeys in the Pacific offer a glimpse into a way of life which is threatened by globalisation, as well as meditations on the vastness of the sea, in the "continent" which the first visitors did not recognise as a cultural and geographic unity. |
Voyage à Rodrigues
Raga. Approche du continent invisible
Collection translations
Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
Translated by the Author into French
| Title | Year | Publisher | Length | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam" | 1976 | Gallimard, Le Chemin, Paris |
201 pages |
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"Le Clézio is an expert on early Amerindian mythology and culture and produced a translation of Maya mythology into a French in Les prophéties du Chilam Balam" The Mayan Chilam Balam books are usually collections of disparate texts in which Mayan and Spanish traditions have coalesced and are in the Yucatec Maya language (in European script). Le Clezio ... is a speaker of at least a half-dozen languages, three of which are pre-Columbian, including Maya, which he learned while living in a Yucatecan village during the 1970s. When asked about his devotion to native cultures, Le Clezio replied
"Le Chilam Balam" is a collection of songs, prophecies and calendars kept through oral tradition. These books contain the observations, calendars and prophecies of the seer or magician named Balam, and they are named after their place of origin. |
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Relation de Michoacan
Translation of "Relación de Michoacan" from medieval Spanish into French. This codex, copied in the years 1539-1540, contains the narration of a Franciscan friar, whom the American historian Dr. Benedict Warren identified as Fray Gerónimo de Alcalá.
Sirandanes
Translated by the Author into French
| Title | Year | Publisher | Length | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sirandanes" | 1988 | Seghers, Paris |
93 pages | co-translated by his wife Jémia . | |
| Includes a glossary entitled"Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux" meaning this glossagy is a small lexicon of a creole language and a guide to birds. | |||||
Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux
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