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, Iowa Sully, Iowa Sully is a small town of 821 (2010) located in Jasper County, Iowa, United States named after railroad man Alfred Sully. Sully was platted in 1882. The community was incorporated in 1901. Van Wijk Winery The City of Sully is home to the Van Wijk Winery, which has been producing twenty varieties of Iowa wine since 2009. Coffee Cup Cafe The Coffee Cup Cafe started in 1970 with old fashioned cooking with great recipes from the community. It is said that they take pride in their "made from scratch" cooking, which includes pies that are well known throughout