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
Avalon (Sully Erna album) with first-week sales of nearly 14,000 copies. Note Avalon (Sully Erna album) Avalon is the first solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 14, 2010. "Avalon" is a combination of work that took Sully Erna almost seven years to complete. In October 2006, "Launch Radio Networks" reported that Sully Erna has started working on his solo album. Although he wasn't exactly sure what shape it will take, Erna told "Launch Radio Networks" that "I've been putting some thought into it," he said. "I actually have some stuff that I'm doing on the side right now.