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
Sammy Jo Prudhomme named the 2016 Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year, and to the Pac-12 First Team. Prudhomme was selected by the Boston Breakers with the 31st overall pick in the 2017 NWSL College Draft. She signed with the team on April 4, 2017. Prudhomme started five games in her rookie year, filling in for starting goalkeeper Abby Smith when she was injured. She helped the Breakers stop a seven game losing streak. Prudhomme was the first Breaker to record three consecutive shutouts and broke the club record for shut out minutes. After the Breakers folded ahead of the 2018 NWSL season, the