Talk:J. M. G. Le Clézio

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childhood

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Deleted "During World War II, the family was separated, his father being unable to join his wife and children in Nice."}}and

"Le Clézio moved with his family at age 8 to Nigeria, where his father served as a surgeon in the British army
to make a more understandable copyedit:

"In a semi-autobiographical short-story-like essay L’Africain Le Clézio tells what it was like to be just eight years old and how he left Nice with his mother and brother to join up with his father in Nigeria.His father had been serving as a surgeon in the British army "

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Deleted:"France’s Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize|ref name="APbio"}}
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view.bg?articleid=1124501

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Is there a better reference than this ?
:"French Le Clépto-Maalouf: un air de famille (publisher=L'Express Livres )
http://livres.lexpress.fr/entretien.asp/idC=8178/idR=5/idTC=4/idG=0

^?

It's in French
It is too long
Where is the quote?
What is it we would like to know about the family ?
--Stadt (talk) 19:52, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so confused

Why does it say this page (and I mean this talk page, not the article) has the {{dated prod}} template on it? I can't find it anywhere! --Closedmouth (talk) 08:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know where it says that this page has the {{dated prod}} template on it.The sub-page J. M. G. Le Clézio/to do was proposed for deletion because it was a sub-page of the Le Clézio article.I don`t know where the {{dated prod}} template is since this issue has been resolved by the creation of a sub-page Talk:J. M. G. Le Clézio/to do.I know that you can propose deletion of any article by sticking the "Prod" template on it or by sticking a dated prod on it , citing a reason for deletion.On January 12, 2009 a user Uncle G moved J. M. G. Le Clézio/to do to→ Talk:J. M. G. Le Clézio/to do ‎ (Correct namespace for to-do lists)--Stadt (talk) 21:16, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it must have been something to do with the job queue and transclusion. Seems to have been fixed now, but it took a disturbingly long time :-/ --Closedmouth (talk) 06:55, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaning up the Childhood section

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Le Clézio was born in the Riviera city of Nice on 13 April 1940.

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/*Biography*//*Nationality*/.

Bithdate in Infobox.
In 1942 Italy occupied FranceItalian-occupied FranceIt held the territory, which included Grenoble and Nice, from 1942 to 1943.
Nigeria was a British Colony until 1957. See →History of Nigeria
Mauritius was a French colony until 1810 when it became a British colonyHistory of Mauritius#British rule (1810–1968) and History of Mauritius#French rule (1710–1810)

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"Généalogie de la famille Le Clézio". sur le site d'Euréka, « La Maison créole » (propriété de la famille Le Clézio à Maurice.) (in French). ute.com. Retrieved 9 December 2008.

It is not clear that this family tree makes it in any way clear whether his mother was Mauritian
The tree is in the French language and does not indicate anything other than the French nationality on both sides of the family.

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Cited news from [Los Angeles Times because there is no proof that to the quote="His father was British and his mother French." (his father may have become British to serve in the British army).

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Le Clézio sees himself as Franco-Mauritian novelist "Although Le Clézio never lived in Mauritius for more than a few months at a time, he regards himself both as a Frenchman and a Mauritian .See the ref. name=roots ."Le Clézio calls Mauritius his "little fatherland".See the ref. name="guardian.

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Le Clézio was raised in France. His early childhood Le Clézio spent in Roquebillière, a small village near Nice. At the age of eight Le Clézio started to write poetry and read comics. In 1947 he traveled to Nigeria with his mother and brother, spending there a happy year without school. Later the author depicted his childhood in the semi-autobiographical novel Onitsha (1991), in which a young boy sails with his mother to Africa, where his English father is chasing his own dreams.
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Le Clézio was brought up in Roquebillière( a small village near Nice) in the Italian occupied border region of southern France until 1948 when he and his mother and his brother boarded a ship set to meet up with his father in Nigeria .Le Clézio may have been depicting his own childhood when he wrote semi-autobiographical novel Onitsha in 1991, but in an essay written in 2004 he wrote in a more autobiographical style about this childhood ,and his relationship with his parents.

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"He spent much of his childhood in Mauritius and Nigeria"

This is a meaningless expression without any dates and references

since he holds both the French and Mauritian citizenship

He regards himseld as a Mauritian.I can find no proof of citizenship

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"In 1947 he traveled to Nigeria with his mother and brother, spending there a happy year without school" "where his English father is chasing his own dreams"
--Stadt (talk) 19:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Daughters?

The article mentions that he has three daughters (from two marriages.) Could one of those daughters be actress Odile Le Clezio, who IMDB says is from Mauritius? How many Le Clezio's could there be on an island with a million or so people? Ms. Le Clezio does not have a page on WP yet, although she's redlined at Young Einstein. --Eliyahu S ^Talk 16:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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