"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

Biography:

Doris May Tayler was born in Persia (Iran today) in 1919. His father, bank employee, was seriously wounded during the First World War and is reduced by one member. His mother, a nurse, lost the man she loved [ref. necessary].

She is only six years old when his family settled in 1925, Southern Rhodesia (then British colony) in the hope of instant wealth through the cultivation of corn, tobacco and grains.

Inmate of an institute run by Catholic nuns on it wrong, it is also in constant opposition with his mother. She is leaving school at fifteen years working as an au pair then eighteen years as switchboard operator at Salisbury (the ancient capital of Southern Rhodesia).

"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"

Biography:

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio born in Nice in 1940. He is the son of Raoul The Clézio, surgeon, and Simone The Clézio. His parents are cousins (both have the same grandfather Sir Eugene The Clézio) and come from a Breton family emigrated to Mauritius in the eighteenth century [6] where they acquire British citizenship as a result of 'annexation of the island by the Empire. The Clézio considers himself himself as culture Mauritian and French. He wrote his first stories at the age of seven years in the cabin of the boat that leads with his mother in Nigeria where he will find his father, who stayed there during the Second World War. Writing and travel remain therefore inseparable from the pen of The Clézio.