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 Sammy Jo Prudhomme Sammy Jo Prudhomme (born October 25, 1993) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She previously played for the Boston Breakers. Born in Torrance, CA and raised in Aliso Viejo, California, Sammy Jo attended Aliso Niguel High School, where she lettered all four years and started her Junior and Senior seasons, became the MVP and Team Captain for both years. She is the daughter of Jon and Jo Beth Prudhomme, and has one brother, Nick. Prudhomme began her college career as an Oregon