At what age did Le Clézio win the Nobel Prize?
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At the age of 68, in 2008, J. M. G. Le Clézio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his authorship of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." He became the first Mauritian-born writer to win a Nobel Prize.
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