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
Sandra Sully (songwriter) Sandra Sully (songwriter) Sandra Sully is a former member of the all-girl band from the 1970s The Love Machine and a songwriter. In the very diverse landscape of music genres of the 1970s, The Love Machine was an all-girl band "specialized" mainly on funk music. The members of the band were Bernice Gibbons, Kathy Bradley, Mary Hopkins, Paulette Gibson, Renee Gentry, Sandra Sully and Sheila Dean. Sandra Sully co-wrote Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now". In 2006 she was credited as a co-writer of Mariah Carey's Grammy Award–winning song "We Belong Together" which incorporated part of "If You're