French-Mauritian novelist of more than 30 novels, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b. 1940) is particularly well known for his Voyage to Rodrigues. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature based on his “authorship of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy”.
Discovered on 13-2-1988 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.