an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." Le Clézio used his Nobel prize acceptance lecture to attack the subject of information poverty. The title of his lecture was Dans la forêt des paradoxes ("In the forest of paradoxes"), a title he attributed to Stig Dagerman. Gao Xingjian, a Chinese émigré writing in Mandarin, was the previous French citizen to receive the prize (for 2000); Le Clézio was the first French-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since Claude Simon for 1985, and the fourteenth since Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first prize of 1901. Controversy Le Clézio is a staunch defender of Mama Rosa, director of a Mexican shelter raided by the police in July 2014 when children were found eating rotten food and kept against the will of their parents. He wrote an article in Le Monde arguing that she is close to sanctity. Bibliography Novels Le Procès-verbal (1963). The Interrogation, trans. Daphne Woodward (1964). Le Déluge (1966). The Flood, trans. Peter Green (1967). Terra Amata (1967). Terra Amata, trans. Barbara Bray (1967). Le Livre des fuites (1969). The Book of Flights, trans. Simon Watson-Taylor (1971). La Guerre (1970). War, trans. Simon Watson-Taylor (1973). Les Géants (1973). The Giants, trans. Simon Watson-Taylor (1975). Voyages de l'autre côté (1975). Désert (1980). Desert, trans. C. Dickson (2009). Le Chercheur d'or (1985). The Prospector, trans. Carol Marks (1993); C. Dickson (2016). Onitsha (1991). Onitsha, trans. Alison Anderson (1997). Étoile errante (1992). Wandering Star, trans. C. Dickson (2005). La Quarantaine (1995). Poisson d'or (1997). Révolutions (2003). Ourania (2006). Ritournelle de la faim (2008). Alma (2017). Short stories and novellas Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur (1964). The Day Beaumont Became Acquainted with His Pain. La Fièvre (1965). Fever, trans. Daphne Woodward (1966) Mondo et autres histoires (1978). Mondo and Other Stories, trans. Alison Anderson (2011). La Ronde et autres faits divers (1982). The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts, trans. C. Dickson (2002). Printemps et autres saisons (1989) Awaité Pawana (1992). Pawana, trans. Brunski (2008). La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien (1997) Hasard suivi d'Angoli Mala (1999) Cœur brûle et autres romances (2000) Fantômes dans la rue (2000). Ghosts in the Street. Tabataba suivi de Pawana (2002) Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies (2011) Tempête : deux novellas (2014). Storm. Non-fiction Le