J. M. G. Le Clézio 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, 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. He is a staunch defender of Mama Rosa, director of a Mexican shelter raided by
Folio Prize was announced 21 March. William Fiennes was Chair of the jury comprising "The Observer" writer Rachel Cooke and writers Mohsin Hamid, AM Homes, and Deborah Levy. No prize. The shortlisted was announced in early April 2017. It was the first year non-fiction was included in the running. The winner was announced May 25. The shortlist was announced in late March 2018. The winner was announced 8 May. Folio Prize The Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known as the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first