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
Sully Bonnelly Sully Bonnelly Sully Bonnelly, in full Sully Osvaldo Bonnelly Canaán (born December 24, 1956), is a Dominican fashion designer of high-style clothing for women. He is the Creative Director for Sully Bonnelly. Bonnelly was born into a family of both Corsican and French descent. An uncle of him, Rafael Bonnelly-Fondeur, became president of the Dominican Republic from 1962 to 1963. Bonnelly studied architecture at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and later moved to New York, where he studied at Parsons School of Design and began his career in fashion as Oscar de la Renta’s assistant. He also worked as a